Privilege Escalation Affecting microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.taghelpers Open this link in a new tab package, versions [,1.0.1)
Attack Complexity
Low
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snyk-id
SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTASPNETCOREMVCTAGHELPERS-60023
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published
13 Sep 2016
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disclosed
13 Sep 2016
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credit
Unknown
Introduced: 13 Sep 2016
CWE-269 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.TagHelpers
to version 1.0.1 or higher.
Overview
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.TagHelpers
contains tag helpers for anchor tags, HTML input elements, caching, scripts, links (for CSS), 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.