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SCA: security update for Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity (GHSA-vhvh-528q-ff3p)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422308

Description

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

 - A Security Feature Bypass vulnerability exists in ASP.NET when the number of incorrect login attempts is
 not validated, aka "ASP.NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability." This affects ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core
 1.1, ASP.NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET MVC 5.2. (CVE-2018-8171)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vhvh-528q-ff3p

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422308

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8171

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-8171

BID: 104659

cwe: CWE-287