CVE-2023-21538 (GCVE-0-2023-21538)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-10 00:00 – Updated: 2025-01-01 00:35
VLAI
Title
.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability
Summary
.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Microsoft .NET 6.0 Affected: 6.0.0 , < 6.0.13 (custom)
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Microsoft PowerShell 7.2 Affected: 7.2.0 , < 7.2.9 (custom)
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Date Public
2023-01-10 08:00
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