Privilege Escalation Affecting microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.abstractions package, versions [,1.0.1)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTASPNETCOREMVCABSTRACTIONS-60032
- published 13 Sep 2016
- disclosed 13 Sep 2016
- credit Unknown
How to fix?
Upgrade Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Abstractions to version 1.0.1 or higher.
Overview
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Abstractions is abstractions and interfaces for action invocation and dispatching, authorization, action filters, formatters, model binding, routing, validation, and more.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. View Components could receive incorrect information, including the details of the current authenticated user. If a View Component depends on the vulnerable code and makes decisions based on the current user, then the it could make incorrect decisions that result in elevation of privilege.