Hackers Hit Zero-Day Flaw in Microsoft's SharePoint
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in an alert, said it's aware of active exploitation of CVE-2025-53770, which enables unauthenticated access to SharePoint systems and arbitrary code execution over the network.
More information has emerged on the ToolShell SharePoint zero-day attacks, including impact, victims, and threat actors.
The name was coined by Dinh Ho Anh, a researcher from Khoa of Viettel Cyber Security, who developed the exploit. The researcher said he picked the name because it exploited ToolPane.aspx, a component for assembling the side panel view in the SharePoint user interface.
State CISOs in North Carolina and Arizona said their teams began work immediately to ensure on-prem SharePoint systems were secure, following the recent disclosure of an active zero-day exploit.
Microsoft also has issued a patch for a related SharePoint vulnerability — CVE-2025-53771; Microsoft says there are no signs of active attacks on CVE-2025-53771, and that the patch is to provide more robust protections than the update for CVE-2025-49706.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-53770, carries a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible 10. It gives unauthenticated remote access to SharePoint Servers exposed to the Internet. Starting Friday,
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Asianet Newsable on MSNUS Nuclear Weapons Agency Reportedly Hit In Microsoft ‘Zero-Day’ Breach — DOE Says Impact Was MinimalProviding additional updates on the breach, Microsoft said in a blog post on Tuesday that two Chinese nation-state operators, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, exploited vulnerabilities in the internet-facing SharePoint servers.