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Privilege Escalation Affecting system.net.http.winhttphandler Open this link in a new tab package, versions [,4.0.2) [4.3,4.5.4)

0.0
high

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-DOTNET-SYSTEMNETHTTPWINHTTPHANDLER-60043

  • 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.WinHttpHandler to version 4.0.2, 4.5.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to failing to properly sanitize web requests.