Access Restriction Bypass Affecting system.servicemodel.http package, versions [4.0.0,4.1.2) [4.3,4.3.2) [4.4,4.4.3) [4.5,4.5.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-SYSTEMSERVICEMODELHTTP-60251
  • published 11 Jul 2018
  • disclosed 9 Jul 2018
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade system.servicemodel.http to version 4.1.2, 4.3.2, 4.4.3, 4.5.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of system.servicemodel.http are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. It does not correctly validate certificates. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could present an expired certificate when challenged.

Note: If an application does not use Windows Communication Foundation you are not affected.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

5.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None