CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2017-11883 — Microsoft Aspnetcore security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

.NET Core 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely cause a denial of service attack against a .NET Core web application by improperly handling web requests, aka ".NET CORE Denial Of Service Vulnerability".

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.0)
Published
2017-11-15
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
windows/system

Affected products

  • microsoft / aspnetcore / 1.0
  • microsoft / aspnetcore / 1.1
  • microsoft / aspnetcore / 2.0

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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