.NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

An update of the dotnet package has been released.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-597 advisory.

    .NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-21409)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

The Microsoft .NET Framework installation on the remote host is missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by remote code execution vulnerability.

The version of .NET Core SDK installed on the remote host is 6.x prior to 6.0.29, 7.x prior to 7.0.18 or 8.x prior to 8.0.4. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the April 2024 advisory:

  - A remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to bypass authentication and execute     unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2024-21409)

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

The version of tested product installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 2024_Apr_09 advisory.

  - .NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-21409)

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

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are missing security updates. They are, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including:

  - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in .NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio. An     unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2024-21409)

  - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server. An     unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2024-28929, CVE-2024-28930, CVE-2024-28931, CVE-2024-28932, CVE-2024-28933, CVE-2024-28934,     CVE-2024-28935, CVE-2024-28936, CVE-2024-28937, CVE-2024-28938)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
234310	Photon OS 5.0: Dotnet PHSA-2025-5.0-0499	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
194497	Amazon Linux 2023 : aspnetcore-runtime-6.0, aspnetcore-targeting-pack-6.0, dotnet (ALAS2023-2024-597)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
193217	Security Updates for Microsoft .NET Framework (April 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
193165	Security Update for Microsoft .NET Core SDK (April 2024)	Nessus	Windows	high
193142	Security Update for Microsoft .NET Core (April 2024)	Nessus	Windows	high
193088	Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (April 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high

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