CVE-2026-32201
Microsoft Sharepoint Server ≤ 16.0.19725.20210
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NSummary
CVE-2026-32201 is a medium-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Microsoft Sharepoint Server. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; CISA has added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2026-32201 is an improper input validation vulnerability (CWE-20) affecting Microsoft Office SharePoint. Published on 2026-04-14, it enables an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing attacks over a network. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (Medium), with a network attack vector (AV:N), low attack complexity (AC:L), no required privileges (PR:N), no user interaction (UI:N), unchanged scope (S:U), low confidentiality impact (C:L), low integrity impact (I:L), and no availability impact (A:N).
An unauthorized attacker can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network without authentication or user interaction. Successful exploitation allows spoofing, potentially leading to limited unauthorized disclosure of information or modification of data, though impacts are confined to low levels for both confidentiality and integrity.
Microsoft's Security Response Center (MSRC) provides an update guide at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-32201 detailing patches and mitigation steps. The vulnerability is also referenced in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog at https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-32201, indicating active exploitation in the wild.
Security practitioners should prioritize patching SharePoint instances per MSRC guidance, given its presence in CISA's KEV catalog signaling real-world exploitation.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-22587
Vulnerability Data
Improper input validation in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network.
- CWE(s)
- KEV Date Added
- 14 April 2026
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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- 6 hardening rules · 3 OS baselines
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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation can discover missing input validation through analysis or test cases.
SI-10 directly requires validity checks on information inputs, structurally preventing improper or missing validation.
Requiring documented development standards and tools can embed input-validation practices into the engineering process.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Secure SDLC practices directly require and enforce input validation during development.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Testing against a defined set of requirements and using code review plus vulnerability scanning forces validation of inputs and handling of unanticipated conditions, reducing the chance that malformed data will be accepted.
Secure-coding guidelines and mandatory security testing (including code scans) compel developers to validate and sanitize inputs at design and implementation time, lowering the incidence of malformed or malicious data reaching downstream components.
Mandating input controls that include integrity checks and input validation ensures that untrusted data is examined before use, blocking the root cause of many injection and malformed-data weaknesses.
Security-by-design principles explicitly call for data validation and sanitization at every layer, reducing the chance that malformed or malicious input will be processed without scrutiny.
Requiring language-specific secure coding standards, peer review, SAST and documented mitigation of common programming errors forces validation of all inputs before they are trusted.
Regular automated validation of system software and data content, combined with scanning of all inbound files, enforces input validation at the boundary before untrusted content is processed.
Hardening callouts derived
Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that bear on weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Each rule is shown with the relationship its mapping actually records, against the CWE it was authored against. Derived via CVE→CWE over `controls_xwalks` (authoritative rows only; rows rated `none` are excluded).
RHEL 8 (1 rule)
- V-230265 RHEL 8 must prevent the installation of software, patches, service packs, device drivers, or operating system components of local packages without verification they have been digitally signed using a certificate that is issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) that is recognized and approved by the organization. prevents CWE-20