CVE-2022-38013
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

.NET Core and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2022-38013) was disclosed on September 13, 2022. The vulnerability affects multiple versions of Microsoft .NET Core and Visual Studio, including .NET 6.0, .NET Core 3.1, Visual Studio 2019 (versions 16.9 and 16.11), and Visual Studio 2022 (versions 17.0, 17.2, and 17.3) (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H, indicating a network-accessible vulnerability with low attack complexity, requiring no privileges or user interaction, and potentially resulting in high availability impact (NVD).

Impact

This vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition in affected systems. The attack affects the availability of the system while maintaining the confidentiality and integrity of the system resources (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Microsoft has released security updates to address this vulnerability. For .NET 6.0, update to SDK version 6.0.109 and Runtime version 6.0.9. For .NET Core 3.1, update to SDK version 3.1.423 and Runtime version 3.1.29 (Fedora Update).

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