Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate with high-privilege SharePoint account
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ExploitSend crafted request bypassing access check
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ImpactDisclose restricted information over network
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Access control enforcement
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Defense Evasion The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires an attacker to already possess high-privilege authenticated access (PR:H) to a Microsoft SharePoint Server Subscription Edition farm running a build below 16.0.20326.20190; once authenticated, the request is made over the network (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction (UI:N). The limiting factor is the high-privilege prerequisite: an unprivileged or anonymous attacker cannot exploit this, which substantially narrows the realistic threat to privileged insiders or attackers who have already compromised a privileged account. Impact is limited to disclosure of confidential information only (no integrity or availability effect). |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity, authenticated information-disclosure flaw (CVSS 4.9) that is unlikely to be an urgent priority for most environments. The CVSS vector agrees across signals pointing to a constrained issue: although the attack vector is network (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction (UI:N), it requires high privileges (PR:H), so the attacker must already hold a privileged, authenticated position on the SharePoint deployment. Impact is confined to confidentiality (C:H) with no integrity or availability effect (I:N/A:N) and no scope change (S:U). CISA's SSVC framework reinforces low urgency: Exploitation=none, Automatable=no, Technical Impact=partial. No EPSS score was supplied in the input, and there is no KEV listing and no public proof-of-concept, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The combination of a high-privilege prerequisite plus confidentiality-only impact means this is a high-CVSS-relevant-but-low-real-risk issue for well-administered environments; the main concern is a privileged insider or an attacker who has already compromised a privileged account using the flaw to reach data otherwise segregated by access controls. Note the 'Authentication Bypass' input tag conflicts with the data: the description states an 'authorized attacker' and the vector requires PR:H, so this is an authenticated access-control failure, not an authentication bypass - verify the tag against the vendor advisory. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who already holds a high-privilege, authenticated account on a SharePoint Server Subscription Edition farm sends crafted requests over the network to reach content the improper access-control check should have withheld. Because exploitation is confined to confidentiality, the result is disclosure of sensitive site or configuration data rather than code execution or tampering. No public exploit code has been identified, and CISA SSVC rates exploitation as 'none' and non-automatable. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026
Information disclosure in Microsoft SharePoint Server Subscription Edition lets an already highly privileged, authenticated attacker read confidential data over the network from an affected farm. Exploitation requires PR:H per the assessed vector (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N), so the practical exposure is limited to privileged insiders or adversaries who have already taken over a high-privilege account; there is no integrity or availability impact. The flaw carries a CVSS base score of 4.9 and, per CISA SSVC, exploitation has not been observed and the issue is not automatable; no public exploit code was identified at time of analysis. Microsoft has published a vendor fix, making this a medium-priority patching item rather than an emergency.
RemediationAI
Apply the vendor fix: upgrade Microsoft SharePoint Server Subscription Edition to build 16.0.20326.20190 or later, as published through the Microsoft Security Response Center advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-70217 (patch availability is confirmed by the vendor, and the fixed build boundary is derived from the EUVD affected range 16.0.0 <16.0.20326.20190). Because the affected component is the on-premises Subscription Edition farm, patch every server in the farm and run the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard so the fix is applied farm-wide; side effect is a required farm-wide maintenance window, since SharePoint updates recycle application pools and interrupt active sessions. If maintenance must be deferred, the effective compensating control is least privilege: audit and aggressively trim high-privilege SharePoint roles (farm administrators, Site Collection Administrators, and any custom role with elevated API access) and remove standing elevated permissions from accounts that do not need them, since exploitation requires PR:H and therefore any reduction in the number of high-privilege identities directly reduces the attack surface. Trade-off: role reduction can break line-of-business workflows and administrative scripts, so stage changes in a test farm first. Network-level restriction of administrative endpoints (for example, limiting the SharePoint Central Administration site to a management VLAN or specific admin hosts) also narrows reachability, with the trade-off of inconveniencing remote administrators. Monitoring privileged account activity and anomalous high-privilege content retrieval is advisable given the disclosure-only impact, but detection is inherently difficult because the requests are legitimate-looking and authenticated.
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Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-284 (Improper Access Control), meaning SharePoint's authorization checks fail to properly restrict a privileged caller's ability to reach or retrieve content that should remain segregated from that role - typically an API, endpoint, or object-level access path that lacks a sufficient permission gate rather than a memory-safety or injection defect. The affected technology is Microsoft SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, Microsoft's continuously updated on-premises SharePoint release line, distributed under Microsoft's 16.0.0 build numbering; EUVD identifies the affected build range as 16.0.0 prior to 16.0.20326.20190. Because the vector is AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U with confidentiality-only impact (C:H/I:N/A:N), the request is network-reachable and trivially reproducible once the caller holds elevated rights, and the consequence is bounded to disclosure of confidential information - no modification, deletion, or denial-of-service capability is implied. The 'Authentication Bypass' tag in the intelligence feed should be read narrowly: the flaw does not let an anonymous or low-privileged user authenticate or escalate, it only lets a caller who already possesses high privileges bypass an access-control restriction that should have constrained them.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Network-reachable (AV:N) but the 'authorized attacker' description and improper access control imply a privileged account, so PR:H; impact is confidentiality-only (C:H, I:N, A:N).
Primary rating from Vendor (microsoft).
CVSS VectorVendor: microsoft
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionCVE.org
Improper access control in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an authorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
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