.NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - .NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38081)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 4 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TSSA-2024:0467 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 4 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2024-21319:
    Microsoft Identity Denial of service vulnerability

    CVE-2024-0057:
    NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

    CVE-2024-0056:
    Microsoft.Data.SqlClient and System.Data.SqlClient SQL Data Provider Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

    CVE-2023-36558:
    ASP.NET Core - Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

    CVE-2023-36049:
    .NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

    CVE-2024-38081:
    .NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Tencent Linux security advisory.

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

An update of the dotnet package has been released.

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

  - .NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38081)

  - .NET and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38095)

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

  - .NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38081)

The version of .NET Core SDK installed on the remote host is 6.x prior to 6.0.32. It is, therefore, affected by remote code execution vulnerability as referenced in the July 2024 advisory:

  - .NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38081)

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 vendor advisory.

  - .NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38081)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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 8.x prior to 8.0.7. It is, therefore, affected by remote code execution vulnerability as referenced in the July 2024 advisory:

  - .NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-35264)

  - .NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38081)

  - .NET and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38095)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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:

  - .NET Core and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability. (CVE-2024-30105, CVE-2024-38095)

  - .NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. (CVE-2024-35264)

  - .NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. (CVE-2024-38081)

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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the vendor advisory.

  - .NET Core and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2024-30105)

  - .NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-35264)

  - .NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38081)

  - .NET and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38095)

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
260621	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-38081	Nessus	Misc.	high
239631	TencentOS Server 4: dotnet6.0 (TSSA-2024:0467)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	high
237067	Photon OS 4.0: Dotnet PHSA-2025-4.0-0804	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
426695	Alpine: dotnet6-runtime: security update to 6.0.32-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
426695	Alpine: dotnet6-runtime: security update to 6.0.32-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
426694	Alpine: dotnet6-build: security update to 6.0.132-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
426694	Alpine: dotnet6-build: security update to 6.0.132-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
234310	Photon OS 5.0: Dotnet PHSA-2025-5.0-0499	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
415894	SCA: security update for Microsoft.IO.Redist (GHSA-hq7w-xv5x-g34j)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
415894	SCA: security update for Microsoft.IO.Redist (GHSA-hq7w-xv5x-g34j)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
209022	Security Update for Microsoft .NET Core SDK (July 2024)	Nessus	Windows	high
209021	Security Update for Microsoft .NET Core (July 2024)	Nessus	Windows	high
202304	Security Updates for Microsoft .NET Framework (July 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
202085	Security Update for Microsoft .NET Core SDK (July 2024)	Nessus	Windows	high
202032	Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (July 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
202031	Security Update for Microsoft .NET Core (July 2024)	Nessus	Windows	high

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