CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited SharePoint Vulnerabilities
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday urged immediate hardening of Microsoft SharePoint servers in light of recently disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities.
The freshest of the exploited flaws is CVE-2026-56164, a privilege escalation issue that can be exploited remotely without authentication, and which was resolved with Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday updates.
On Tuesday, CISA added the CVE to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, urging federal agencies to patch it within three days, in line with BOD 26-04 recommendations.
Microsoft’s latest round of security updates also resolved CVE-2026-55040 and CVE-2026-58644, critical-severity SharePoint bugs that could be exploited remotely to bypass a security feature and to execute arbitrary code.
Although not flagged as exploited, these vulnerabilities pose a risk to organizations if they are not patched in due time, CISA warns.
The cybersecurity agency also draws attention to CVE-2026-32201, a spoofing issue in SharePoint patched in April after being exploited in attacks as a zero-day.
Another exploited SharePoint flaw is CVE-2026-45659, a code execution issue patched in May via an out-of-band security update, which was added to CISA’s KEV list in early July.
“These vulnerabilities affect all supported on-premises SharePoint Server versions (Subscription Edition, 2019, and 2016) and involve establishing remote code execution (RCE) and post-exploitation activities, such as stealing Internet Information Services (IIS) machine keys and performing deserialization techniques, to gain persistence and deploy malware,” CISA warns.
The agency recommends that organizations monitor their SharePoint servers to identify any signs of unusual activity, which could point to active exploitation.
In addition to applying Microsoft’s patches, organizations are advised to ensure that their security products cover all SharePoint web applications, hunt for intrusions, rotate IIS machine keys, enable tailored logging, ensure that SharePoint servers are not directly exposed to the internet, and restrict access to the administration interfaces.
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