Privilege Escalation Affecting microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.dataannotations package, versions [,1.0.1)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTASPNETCOREMVCDATAANNOTATIONS-60029
- published 13 Sep 2016
- disclosed 13 Sep 2016
- credit Unknown
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.