Protection from CVE-2025-53770 (Microsoft SharePoint RCE)
A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microsoft SharePoint and has been assigned CVE-2025-53770. Fastly has created a virtual patch for it that is now available within your account. To activate it and add protection to your services, follow the steps for your control panel below.
Next-Gen WAF control panel
- Professional or Premier platform
- Essentials platform
- Log in to the Next-Gen WAF control panel. 
- From the Sites menu, select a site if you have more than one site. 
- From the Rules menu, select Templated Rules.
- In the search bar, enter CVE-2025-53770and then click View for the CVE-2025-53770 templated rule.
- Click Configure and then Add trigger.
- Select the Block requests from an IP immediately if the CVE-2025-53770 signal is observed checkbox.
- Click Update rule.
Fastly control panel
- Log in to the Fastly control panel. 
- Go to Security > Next-Gen WAF > Workspaces. 
- Click Virtual Patches.
- In the search bar, enter CVE-2025-53770and then click the pencil to the right of the CVE-2025-53770 virtual patch.
- From the Status menu, select Enabled.
- (Optional) If your workspace is in blocking mode, choose whether to Block requests or Log requests if the CVE-2025-53770 signal is observed.
- Click Update virtual patch.
Prior change: New request search operator
Following change: Expanded security functionality in the Fastly control panel