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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.13% (49th percentile)

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

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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
7.3 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low