Privilege Escalation Affecting microsoft.aspnetcore.httpoverrides package, versions [,2.0.2)


0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

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

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 2.78% (91st percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTASPNETCOREHTTPOVERRIDES-60238
  • published 2 May 2018
  • disclosed 25 Jan 2017
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade Microsoft.AspNetCore.HttpOverrides to version 2.0.2 or higher.

Overview

Microsoft.AspNetCore.HttpOverrides is an ASP.NET Core basic middleware for supporting HTTP method overrides.

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation when a Kestrel web application fails to validate web requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could perform HTML injection attacks.