.NET and .NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2018-0765
Security Vulnerability

Released: May 8, 2018

Assigning CNA
Microsoft
CVE.org link
CVE-2018-0765

Executive Summary

A denial of service vulnerability exists when .NET and .NET Core improperly process XML documents. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a denial of service against a .NET application.

A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing specially crafted requests to a .NET (or .NET core) application.

The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how .NET and .NET Core applications handle XML document processing.

Exploitability

The following table provides an exploitability assessment for this vulnerability at the time of original publication.

Publicly disclosed
No
Exploited
No
Exploitability assessment
Exploitation Unlikely

Acknowledgements

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