CISA.MS.SHAREPOINT.1.2: External sharing for OneDrive SHALL be limited to Existing guests or Only People in your organization.
| ID | CISA.MS.SHAREPOINT.1.2 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Suite | CISA SCuBA baselines |
| Product | SharePoint |
| Feature | External sharing |
| Security area | External access and sharing |
| Resource type | Tenant |
| User impact of fixing | High |
| Effort to fix | Medium |
| Benchmark | CISA SCuBA Secure Configuration Baselines for Microsoft 365 ScubaGear main, 2026-10-11, MS.SHAREPOINT.1.2 (SHALL) |
| Framework controls | cisa-scuba:MS.SHAREPOINT.1.2nist-800-53-r5:AC-2 Account Managementnist-800-53-r5:AC-3 Access Enforcementnist-800-53-r5:IA-8 Identification and Authentication (Non-organizational Users) |
| MITRE ATT&CK | T1048, T1213.002, T1530 |
| Reads from | SharePoint Online PowerShell |
What this checks and how to fix it
Section titled “What this checks and how to fix it”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:
Section titled “Remediation action:”- Sign in to the SharePoint admin center.
- Select Policies > Sharing.
- Adjust external sharing slider for OneDrive to Existing guests or Only people in your organization.
- Select Save.
Related links
Section titled “Related links”Mito check, based on CISA ScubaGear. Author: Mynster9361. Open-source licences.
Open-source licences. CIS Benchmark material © Center for Internet Security, Inc.; CISA SCuBA baselines are public domain (CC0).
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