CVE-2018-8416Medium

.NET Core Tampering Vulnerability

Published
November 13, 2018
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A tampering vulnerability exists when .NET Core improperly handles specially crafted files. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could write arbitrary files and directories to certain locations on a vulnerable system. However, an attacker would have limited control over the destination of the files and directories. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker must send a specially crafted file to a vulnerable system. The security update fixes the vulnerability by ensuring .NET Core properly handles files.

🎯 Affected products3

  • .NET Core 2.1
  • PowerShell Core 6.1
  • PowerShell Core 6.2

✅ Remediation

KBRelease Notes (Security Update)

🔗 References (3)