KB5002659:Administrative Actions Logging

Description of the security update for SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016: December 10, 2024 (KB5002659)

Summary
This security update resolves a Microsoft SharePoint remote code execution vulnerability, Microsoft SharePoint elevation of privilege vulnerability, Microsoft SharePoint information disclosure vulnerability, and Microsoft Office remote code execution vulnerability. To learn more about the vulnerabilities, see the following security advisories:

• Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2024-49070
• Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2024-49068
• Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2024-49064
• Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2024-49062
• Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2024-49065
  Notes:
• This is build 16.0.5478.1000 of the security update package.
• To apply this security update, you must have the release version of Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 installed on the computer.

This public update delivers Feature Pack 2 for SharePoint Server 2016. Feature Pack 2 contains the following feature:

• SharePoint Framework (SPFx)

This public update also delivers all the features that were included in Feature Pack 1 for SharePoint Server 2016, including:

• Administrative Actions Logging
• MinRole enhancements
• SharePoint Custom Tiles
• Hybrid Taxonomy
• OneDrive API for SharePoint on-premises
• OneDrive for Business modern user experience (available to Software Assurance customers)

Improvements and fixes
This security update contains a fix for the following nonsecurity issue in SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016:

• Fixes an issue that affects restricting SPSerialization by using a new allow list mechanism. This cause pages that have third-party web parts or controls not to load successfully. For more information, see Nested third-party web parts or controls experience display problems (KB5049566).

This security update also contains an improvement. To get the improvement, you have to install KB 5002544 together with this update.

• Adds a banner in Central Administration to notify customers about the end of support for Search Content Service (SCS)-based hybrid search.