.NET Core and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2023-38178
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 1.8%, top 17% 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
- 83.3%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 8, 2023
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (2)
- secure@microsofthttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-38178
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-38178
Patch Availability(2)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | netstandard-targeting-pack-2.1-7.0 (7.0.110-0ubuntu1~23.04.1) @ lunar | 2026-05-24 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | netstandard-targeting-pack-2.1-7.0 (7.0.110-0ubuntu1~22.04.1) @ jammy | 2026-05-24 | ubuntu |
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
(8 across 1 ecosystem)
NuGet(8)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.win-arm | 7.0.0 ... 7.0.9 (9 versions) | 7.0.10 | — |
| Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.win-arm64 | 7.0.0 ... 7.0.9 (9 versions) | 7.0.10 | — |
| Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.win-x64 | 7.0.0 ... 7.0.9 (9 versions) | 7.0.10 | — |
| Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.win-x86 | 7.0.0 ... 7.0.9 (9 versions) | 7.0.10 | — |
| Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.win-arm | 7.0.0 ... 7.0.9 (9 versions) | 7.0.10 | — |
| Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.win-arm64 | 7.0.0 ... 7.0.9 (9 versions) | 7.0.10 | — |
| Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.win-x64 | 7.0.0 ... 7.0.9 (9 versions) | 7.0.10 | — |
| Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.win-x86 | 7.0.0 ... 7.0.9 (9 versions) | 7.0.10 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(3)
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.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 48× 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.
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