Improper Certificate Validation Affecting system.net.http package, versions [,4.1.2) [4.3,4.3.2)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.21% (60th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-SYSTEMNETHTTP-60046
- published 12 May 2017
- disclosed 12 May 2017
- credit Joonwoo Yu, Hyoung-Kee Choi
Introduced: 12 May 2017
CVE-2017-0248 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade System.Net.Http to version 4.1.2, 4.3.2 or higher.
Overview
System.Net.Http is a Provides a programming interface for modern HTTP applications, including HTTP client components that allow applications to consume web services over HTTP and HTTP components that can be used by both clients and servers for parsing HTTP headers.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation. It allows an attacker to bypass Enhanced Security Usage tagging when they present a certificate that is invalid for a specific use.
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CVSS Scores
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