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Privilege Escalation Affecting microsoft.netcore.app package, versions [2.0.0, 2.1.4)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.51% (77th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTNETCOREAPP-174572
  • published 2 May 2019
  • disclosed 9 Jan 2018
  • credit Kevin Chalet
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Introduced: 9 Jan 2018

CVE-2018-0784 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-269 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Microsoft.NETCore.App to version 2.1.4 or higher.

Overview

Microsoft.NETCore.App is a set of .NET API's that are included in the default .NET Core application model.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. When using vulnerable project templates, it fails to properly sanitize web requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could perform content injection attacks and run script in the security context of the logged-on user.