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Denial of service vulnerability exists when .NET and .NET Core improperly process XML documents

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 16, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

nuget System.Security.Cryptography.Xml (NuGet)

Affected versions

< 4.4.2

Patched versions

4.4.2

Description

Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 3.5.1, 4, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2 and 5.7 and .NET Core 1.0. 1.1 and 2.0 allow a denial of service vulnerability due to the way XML documents are processed, aka ".NET and .NET Core Denial Of Service Vulnerability". This CVE is unique from CVE-2018-0765.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 10, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 16, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2018-0764

GHSA ID

GHSA-rr3c-f55v-qhv5

Source code

No known source code
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