CVE-2018-8416

Asp.Net Core vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

7.3%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

A tampering vulnerability exists when .NET Core improperly handles specially crafted files, aka ".NET Core Tampering Vulnerability." This affects .NET Core 2.1.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Asp.Net Core

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Published

2018-11-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 7.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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