Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as low-privilege SharePoint user
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DeliverySend crafted network requests to server
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ExploitObserve response/timing discrepancy (CWE-203)
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ExecutionInfer protected data or tamper with state
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ImpactConfidentiality/integrity impact on SharePoint
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Timing-safe comparisons
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires an authenticated SharePoint user with at least low privileges (PR:L) who has network access to the SharePoint Server Subscription Edition instance; it is NOT remote-unauthenticated. The weakness is an observable discrepancy (CWE-203), so the attacker must be able to issue requests and compare response content, timing, or error signals to extract or manipulate information. HIGH attack complexity (AC:H) limits exploitation: the attacker must satisfy conditions outside their direct control (e.g., winning a timing/race window or specific server state), and no user interaction is needed (UI:N). The primary limiting factors are the required valid account, the non-trivial conditions behind AC:H, and the absence of any known automation (SSVC Automatable=no). |
| Impact | This is a moderate-priority issue with multiple signals pointing toward limited real-world urgency. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N) scores 6.8 and indicates network reach but HIGH attack complexity and the need for at least low-level privileges (PR:L), meaning an attacker must already be an authorized/authenticated SharePoint user and must win a race or satisfy specific conditions implied by the observable-discrepancy weakness (CWE-203). CISA's SSVC framework reinforces a lower tier: Exploitation=none (no observed or public exploitation), Automatable=no (cannot be reliably scripted at scale), though Technical Impact=total. There is no CISA KEV listing and no public POC, so exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' A notable CONFLICT exists in the source data: the description characterizes the flaw as 'tampering' (an integrity action) and the CVSS claims C:H/I:H, yet CWE-203 (Observable Discrepancy) and the 'Information Disclosure' tag describe a confidentiality/information-leak weakness - verify the true impact with Microsoft's MSRC advisory, as the tampering framing and the information-disclosure classification are not consistent. Net: a high-CVSS-leaning but low-real-risk-at-present issue given PR:L, AC:H, SSVC none/no, and absence of any exploit evidence; patch on a normal cycle rather than emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An authenticated low-privilege SharePoint user on the network sends crafted requests to a vulnerable Subscription Edition server and observes differences in responses, timing, or error behavior (the observable discrepancy) to infer protected information or manipulate state. Success requires winning the specific conditions behind the high attack complexity, and no public exploit code currently exists. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 13, 2026
Microsoft SharePoint Server Subscription Edition is affected by an observable-discrepancy weakness (CWE-203) that allows an authenticated, low-privileged user with network access to compare response content, timing, or error signals and use those differences to extract protected information and tamper with server-side data. Scope is limited to SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, and exploitation is not remote-unauthenticated: the attacker needs a valid account and must meet conditions outside their direct control (high attack complexity), so the issue is situational rather than mass-exploitable. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and there is no confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV not applicable; SSVC reports Exploitation: none, Automatable: no, Technical Impact: total), so the surrounding signals indicate limited real-world urgency for this moderate-severity issue.
RemediationAI
Patch available per vendor advisory: apply the security update referenced in the Microsoft MSRC Update Guide for CVE-2026-97782 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-97782); the exact patched build number is not specified in the supplied data, so confirm the installed version after applying the update via SharePoint Central Administration and re-check the MSRC guide for the corresponding build. Until patching is verified, compensating controls should target the observable discrepancy itself: normalize server responses by enabling generic/custom error pages for authenticated users and suppressing verbose stack traces or differentiating status codes, accepting the trade-off that troubleshooting becomes harder for administrators; restrict who can reach the farm by limiting network exposure to trusted internal ranges, VPN, or a reverse proxy with authentication, at the cost of breaking external/remote collaboration flows; and enforce least privilege on site collections, lists, and libraries so few accounts hold the PR:L-level access the attack requires. Because exploitation is a repeated-request pattern, enable SharePoint Unified Audit Logging and rate-limit or alert on high-volume sequential requests and permission-probing behavior from single accounts, noting that aggressive throttling can affect legitimate bulk clients such as sync and migration tools; there is no vendor-released workaround that fully eliminates the discrepancy, so the update remains the only complete fix.
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The root cause class is CWE-203 (Observable Discrepancy), a side-channel weakness in which a system behaves measurably differently depending on secret or protected state. In SharePoint Server Subscription Edition running on IIS/ASP.NET, that typically means differences in HTTP status codes, response bodies, error text, processing time, or item counts returned by SharePoint REST endpoints, CSOM calls, or list/library views when a low-privileged user probes resources they should not be able to characterize. Because the discrepancy is observable rather than a direct authorization bypass, the attacker must issue crafted requests and statistically compare responses, which is why the assessed vector carries AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N - the network path is used, but a timing/race window or a specific server state must be won, and no user interaction is needed. The independent assessment rates confidentiality impact High but integrity impact only Low (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N, a moderate base score in the ~5.9 range and lower than the vendor's 6.8), reflecting that information leakage is the more reliable outcome and that the disclosed "tampering" is constrained rather than arbitrary write access; SSVC also records Automatable: no, meaning the conditions are not readily scripted at scale. The affected version enumeration (EUVD) lists SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, and no CPE strings were supplied to further narrow the build range.
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AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Network-reachable but AC:H for the discrepancy/race condition and PR:L for the required authenticated account; CWE-203 is primarily a confidentiality leak (C:H), with limited integrity (I:L) given the ambiguous tampering claim.
Primary rating from Vendor (microsoft).
CVSS VectorVendor: microsoft
DescriptionCVE.org
Observable discrepancy in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an authorized attacker to perform tampering over a network.
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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