Cisco Talos
Cisco Talos reports ongoing exploitation of CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771, path traversal vulnerabilities affecting on-premises SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, 2016, and 2019, with Microsoft releasing update KB5002760 for SharePoint Enterprise...
Vulnerabilities & Patching
Cisco Talos
Cisco Talos Incident Response reports that threat actors used public-facing application exploitation for initial access in over 60 percent of engagements this quarter, up from less than 10 percent last quarter, largely driven by ToolShell attacks on...
Threat Actors & Nation-State
Krebs on Security
On Sunday, July 20, Microsoft issued an emergency update for CVE-2025-53770, an on-premises SharePoint Server flaw being actively exploited and only partially addressed by the July 8, 2025 patch; CISA called it a variant of CVE-2025-49706. Eye Security...
Vulnerabilities & Patching
Unit 42 Palo Alto Networks
Unit 42 documented active exploitation of the ToolShell SharePoint vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-49704, CVE-2025-49706, CVE-2025-53770, CVE-2025-53771) from July 17, 2025, 08:40 UTC through July 22, 2025, by activity tracked as CL-CRI-1040, which tested...
Vulnerabilities & Patching
Unit 42 Palo Alto Networks
Unit 42 reports high-confidence overlap between Microsoft's Storm-2603, a suspected China-based actor exploiting SharePoint via the ToolShell chain (CVE-2025-49704, CVE-2025-49706, CVE-2025-53770, CVE-2025-53771), and its own tracked cluster CL-CRI-1040,...
Threat Actors & Nation-State
Qualys Blog
On July 19, 2025, Microsoft issued an emergency out-of-band update for two SharePoint Server zero-days, CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771, both under active exploitation. CVE-2025-53770 is a critical 9.8 deserialization flaw allowing unauthenticated remote...
Vulnerabilities & Patching