AI-assisted exploit chain reaches unauthenticated RCE on SharePoint

Rapid7 chained CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS 9.1), an auth bypass in SharePoint's JWT pipeline, with CVE-2026-63520 (CVSS 8.1) for unauthenticated RCE; an AI agent did much of the discovery. Affects SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, 2019, and 2016, not SharePoint Online. CISA says the bypass wasn't known exploited as of July 14.
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