Bug 1512998 (CVE-2017-8700)

Summary: CVE-2017-8700 ASP.NET: CORS not properly applied
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Trevor Jay <tjay>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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A flaw was found in dotNET where the CORS attribute is not properly enforced or checked. An attacker could leverage this for possible remote execution.
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Bug Depends On: 1513083, 1513084, 1513085    
Bug Blocks: 1512757    

Description Trevor Jay 2017-11-14 15:00:44 UTC
CVE-2017-8700 was assigned to the following vulnerability:

ASP.NET Core 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 allow an attacker to bypass Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) configurations and retrieve normally restricted content from a web application, aka "ASP.NET Core Information Disclosure Vulnerability".

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8700

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2017-12-01 11:21:25 UTC
This issue did not affected .NET Core, but affected ASP.NET Core.  More details can be found in the upstream Microsoft advisories:

https://github.com/aspnet/Announcements/issues/279
https://github.com/aspnet/Mvc/issues/7054
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-8700

Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2017-12-01 11:22:10 UTC
External References:

https://github.com/aspnet/Announcements/issues/279