Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2024-38168 | .NET Denial of Service Vulnerability
Date: 2024-08
Affected: nuget/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.win-x86, nuget/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.win-x64, nuget/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.win-arm64
Attack vector: dos
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2024-38168
CWE: CWE-400
CVSS: 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

# Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2024-38168 | .NET Denial of Service Vulnerability ## <a name="executive-summary"></a>Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET 8.0. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability. A vulnerability exists in .NET when an attacker through unauthenticated requests may trigger a Denial of Service in ASP.NET HTTP.sys web server. This is a windows OS only vulnerability. ## Announcement Announcement for this issue can be found at https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/320 ## <a name="mitigation-factors"></a>Mitigation factors Microsoft has not identified any mitigating factors for this vulnerability. ## <a name="affected-software"></a>Affected software * Any .NET 8.0 application running on .NET 8.0.7 or earlier. ## <a name="affected-packages"></a>Affected Packages The vulnerability affects any Microsoft .NET Core project if it uses any of affected packages versions listed below ### <a name=".NET 8"></a>.NET 8 Package name | Affected version | Patched version ------------ | ---------------- | ------------------------- [Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.win-arm](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.win-arm) | >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.8 | 8.0.8 [Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.win-arm64](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.w


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