Privilege Escalation Affecting microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.dataannotations package, versions [,1.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTASPNETCOREMVCDATAANNOTATIONS-60029
  • published 13 Sep 2016
  • disclosed 13 Sep 2016
  • credit Unknown

Introduced: 13 Sep 2016

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-269 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.DataAnnotations to version 1.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.DataAnnotations is a package for metadata and validation system using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
7.3 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low