Resource Injection Affecting nuget.protocol package, versions [4.9.6,4.9.7)[5.11.3,5.11.7)[6.8.0,6.8.2)[6.11.0-preview.2,6.11.2)[6.12.0,6.12.5)[6.14.0,6.14.3)[7.0.0,7.0.3)[7.3.0,7.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DOTNET-NUGETPROTOCOL-16066437
  • published15 Apr 2026
  • disclosed14 Apr 2026
  • creditsplitline

Introduced: 14 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-39399  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-345  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-99  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade NuGet.Protocol to version 4.9.7, 5.11.7, 6.8.2, 6.11.2, 6.12.5, 6.14.3, 7.0.3, 7.3.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Injection in the NuGetGallery backend job’s handling of .nuspec files within NuGet packages. An attacker can bypass intended validation by supplying specially crafted package metadata (IDs or versions).

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1