.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2023-21538
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 1.1%, top 21% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 84.4%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
January 10, 2023
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (2)
- secure@microsofthttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-21538
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-21538
Patch Availability(4)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | dotnet-host (6.0.113-0ubuntu1~22.10.1) @ kinetic | 2026-05-25 | ubuntu |
| redhat | dotnet6.0-0:6.0.113-1.el9_1 | 2023-01-11 | redhat |
| redhat | rh-dotnet60-dotnet-0:6.0.113-1.el7_9 | 2023-01-11 | redhat |
| redhat | dotnet6.0-0:6.0.113-1.el8_7 | 2023-01-11 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(12 across 1 ecosystem)
NuGet(12)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.linux-arm | 6.0.0 ... 6.0.9 (13 versions) | 6.0.13 | — |
| Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.linux-arm64 | 6.0.0 ... 6.0.9 (13 versions) | 6.0.13 | — |
| Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-arm | 6.0.0 ... 6.0.9 (13 versions) | 6.0.13 | — |
| Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-arm64 | 6.0.0 ... 6.0.9 (13 versions) | 6.0.13 | — |
| Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-x64 | 6.0.0 ... 6.0.9 (13 versions) | 6.0.13 | — |
| Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.linux-x64 | 6.0.0 ... 6.0.9 (13 versions) | 6.0.13 | — |
| Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.osx-arm64 | 6.0.0 ... 6.0.9 (13 versions) | 6.0.13 | — |
| Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.osx-x64 | 6.0.0 ... 6.0.9 (13 versions) | 6.0.13 | — |
| Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.win-arm | 6.0.0 ... 6.0.9 (13 versions) | 6.0.13 | — |
| Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.win-arm64 | 6.0.0 ... 6.0.9 (13 versions) | 6.0.13 | — |
| Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.win-x64 | 6.0.0 ... 6.0.9 (13 versions) | 6.0.13 | — |
| Microsoft.NETCore.App.Runtime.win-x86 | 6.0.0 ... 6.0.9 (13 versions) | 6.0.13 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(5)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2023-215382023-01-10
.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability
- Red HatRHSA-2023:0077MODERATE2023-01-10
RHSA-2023:0077 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:0078MODERATE2023-01-10
RHSA-2023:0078 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:0079MODERATE2023-01-10
RHSA-2023:0079 — Moderate
- UbuntuUSN-5798-1MEDIUM
.NET 6 vulnerability
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 44× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-11 08:25 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-05-25 08:59 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-05-25 08:59 UTCVendor advisory
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