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CVE record · CVE-2021-26412

Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVSS 9.1 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.34 · 98th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.1: 9.0 or more.
  • CVSS score 9.1 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.34 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: microsoft) at 2 Mar 2021, 23:55 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Microsoft Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 23
  • affected 15.00.0 to before 15.00.1497.012 custom
Microsoft Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 18
  • affected 15.01.0 to before 15.01.2106.013 custom
Microsoft Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 19
  • affected 15.01.0 to before 15.01.2176.009 custom
Microsoft Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 7
  • affected 15.02.0 to before 15.02.0721.013 custom
Microsoft Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 8
  • affected 15.02.0 to before 15.02.0792.010 custom
Identifiers
CVE-2021-26412
CNA
microsoft
Tags
Published
2 Mar 2021
Updated
19 Aug 2026

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.1 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C CNA (microsoft)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.34, the 98th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 2 Mar 2021. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.