Input validation error in .NET - CVE-2024-20672

 

Input validation error in .NET - CVE-2024-20672

Published: January 9, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU85211
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-20672
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the .NET Core and Visual Studio. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

.NET
Amazon Linux AMI
Tenable Identity Exposure (formerly Tenable.ad)
dotnet6.0

How to mitigate CVE-2024-20672

Install updates from vendor's website.

Tenable Identity Exposure (formerly Tenable.ad) - update to 3.59.4
dotnet6.0 - update to 6.0.127-1

External References

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