Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting microsoft.aspnetcore.server.kestrel.transport.abstractions Open this link in a new tab package, versions [,2.0.3) [2.1.0-preview1-final,2.1.0-rc1-final)
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-DOTNET-MICROSOFTASPNETCORESERVERKESTRELTRANSPORTABSTRACTIONS-60242
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published
9 May 2018
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disclosed
12 Mar 2018
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credit
Unknown
Introduced: 12 Mar 2018
CWE-400 Open this link in a new tabOverview
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Transport.Abstractions
Transport abstractions for the ASP.NET Core Kestrel cross-platform web server.
Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks. A specially crafted request can cause excess resource consumption.
Details
Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.
Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.
One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.
When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.
Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:
High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.
Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm
ws
package
Remediation
Upgrade Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Transport.Abstractions
to version 2.0.3,2.1.0-rc1-final or higher.