Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting system.security.cryptography.xml package, versions [8.0.0,8.0.5)[9.0.0,9.0.21)[10.0.0,10.0.13)[11.0.0-preview.1,11.0.0-rc.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.75% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DOTNET-SYSTEMSECURITYCRYPTOGRAPHYXML-20930964
  • published14 Oct 2026
  • disclosed13 Oct 2026
  • creditnovice-22, Ky0toFu, Ashar Javed

Introduced: 13 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-96959  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade System.Security.Cryptography.Xml to version 8.0.5, 9.0.21, 10.0.13, 11.0.0-rc.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to insufficient resource limits in the XML signature processing. An attacker can cause excessive resource consumption by submitting specially crafted XML data.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1