Summary
Impact: Spoofing. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to some loss of confidentiality (C:L), and integrity (I:L) but lead to no loss of availability (A:N). What is the impact of this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could view some sensitive information (Confidentiality), make changes to disclosed information (Integrity), but cannot limit access to the resource (Availability).
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R) and privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An authorized attacker must send the user a malicious link and convince the user to open it.
I am running SharePoint Server 2016. Do the updates for SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 also apply to the version I am running?
Yes. The same KB number applies to both SharePoint Server 2016 and SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016. Customers running either version should install the security update to be protected from this vulnerability.
Security updates
16.0.5556.1005 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002880
16.0.10417.20153 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002874
16.0.19725.20384 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002873
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 4.6
Microsoft SharePoint Server Spoofing Vulnerability
Improper input validation in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an authorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network.
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2026-47641 Microsoft SharePoint Server Spoofing Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-47641
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss