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Version: 3.0.0-preview

CISA.MS.SHAREPOINT.1.2 - External sharing for OneDrive SHALL be limited to Existing guests or Only People in your organization.

Overviewโ€‹

External sharing for OneDrive SHALL be limited to Existing guests or Only People in your organization.

Rationale: Restricting OneDrive sharing reduces the risk of unauthorized data exposure from individual user storage. Allowing broad external sharing of OneDrive content increases the attack surface.

Remediation action:โ€‹

  1. Sign in to the SharePoint admin center.
  2. Select Policies > Sharing.
  3. Adjust external sharing slider for OneDrive to Existing guests or Only people in your organization.
  4. Select Save.

Test Metadataโ€‹

FieldValue
Test IDCISA.MS.SHAREPOINT.1.2
SeverityMedium
SuiteCISA
ProductSharePoint
FeatureExternal sharing
AreaExternal access and sharing
Resource typeTenant
User impactHigh
Implementation costMedium
MITRE ATT&CKT1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol, T1213.002 Sharepoint, T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
Supports benchmarkCISA SCuBA Secure Configuration Baselines for Microsoft 365 (version ScubaGear main, 2026-10-11), requirement MS.SHAREPOINT.1.2
CriticalitySHALL
Upstream requirementMS.SHAREPOINT.1.2v1
Supports controlscisa-scuba:MS.SHAREPOINT.1.2, nist-800-53-r5:AC-2, nist-800-53-r5:AC-3, nist-800-53-r5:IA-8
PowerShell testTest-MtCisaSpoOneDriveSharing
ServicesSharePointOnline

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