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Privilege Escalation Affecting system.net.http package, versions [,4.1.2) [4.3,4.3.2)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.15% (51st percentile)
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NVD
7.3 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-SYSTEMNETHTTP-60047
  • published 12 May 2017
  • disclosed 12 May 2017
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 12 May 2017

CVE-2017-0249 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-269 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade System.Net.Http to version 4.1.2, 4.3.2 or higher.

Overview

System.Net.Http 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 Privilege Escalation due to failing to properly sanitize web requests.

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