Description
A denial of service vulnerability exists when ASP.NET Core improperly handles web requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a denial of service against an ASP.NET Core web application. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely, without authentication.
A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing specially crafted requests to the ASP.NET Core application.
The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the ASP.NET Core web application handles web requests.
Published: 2020-08-17
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 7.6% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-f8qx-mjcq-wfgx ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability
History

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:15:00 +0000

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Description A denial of service vulnerability exists when ASP.NET Core improperly handles web requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a denial of service against an ASP.NET Core web application. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely, without authentication. A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing specially crafted requests to the ASP.NET Core application. The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the ASP.NET Core web application handles web requests. A denial of service vulnerability exists when ASP.NET Core improperly handles web requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a denial of service against an ASP.NET Core web application. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely, without authentication. A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing specially crafted requests to the ASP.NET Core application. The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the ASP.NET Core web application handles web requests.

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Fedoraproject Fedora
Microsoft Asp.net Core Visual Studio 2017 Visual Studio 2019
Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Dotnet
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T06:39:10.725Z

Reserved: 2019-11-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-1597

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-08-17T19:15:21.927

Modified: 2026-02-23T18:25:45.733

Link: CVE-2020-1597

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2020-08-11T17:21:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-1597 - Bugzilla

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