An information disclosure vulnerability exists in .NET Core when authentication information is inadvertently exposed in a redirect, aka ".NET Core Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects .NET Core 2.1, .NET Core 1.0, .NET Core 1.1, PowerShell Core 6.0.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in .NET Core when authentication information is
    inadvertently exposed in a redirect, aka ".NET Core Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects
    .NET Core 2.1, .NET Core 1.0, .NET Core 1.1, PowerShell Core 6.0. (CVE-2018-8292)

The remote Windows host has an installation of .NET Core SDK with a version less than 1.1.11 Therefore, the host is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability.

The remote Windows host has an installation of .NET Core with a version of 1.0.x prior to 1.0.13, 1.1.x prior to 1.1.10 or 2.0.x. Therefore, the host is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2902 advisory.

    .NET Core is a managed software framework. It implements a subset of the .NET framework APIs and several     new APIs, and it includes a CLR implementation.

    New versions of .NET Core that address several security vulnerabilities are now available. The updated     versions are .NET Core 1.1.1 and 1.0.13.

    These versions correspond to the October 2018 security release by .NET Core upstream projects.

    Security Fix(es):

    * An information disclosure vulnerability exists in .NET Core when authentication information is     inadvertently exposed in a redirect (CVE-2018-8292)

    For more information, please refer to the upstream docs in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
412112	SCA: security update for System.Net.Http (GHSA-7jgj-8wvc-jh57)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
412112	SCA: security update for System.Net.Http (GHSA-7jgj-8wvc-jh57)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
118149	Security Update for .NET Core SDK (October 2018)	Nessus	Windows	Local	high
118148	Security Update for .NET Core (October 2018)	Nessus	Windows	Local	high
118127	RHEL 7 : .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHSA-2018:2902)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	high

Detections

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CVE-2018-8292

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Tenable Plugins

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