Privilege Escalation Affecting microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.cors package, versions [,1.0.1)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTASPNETCOREMVCCORS-60030
- published 13 Sep 2016
- disclosed 13 Sep 2016
- credit Unknown
How to fix?
Upgrade Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Cors to version 1.0.1 or higher.
Overview
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Cors is a package for cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) features.
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.