CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-1476

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2020-08-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-08-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when ASP.NET or .NET web applications running on IIS improperly allow access to cached files. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain access to restricted files. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to send a specially crafted request to an affected server. The update addresses the vulnerability by changing how ASP.NET and .NET handle requests.

Affected configurations

• microsoft .net framework 2.0 • microsoft .net framework 3.5 • microsoft .net framework 4.6.2 • microsoft .net framework 4.7 • microsoft .net framework 4.7.1 • microsoft .net framework 4.7.2 • microsoft .net framework 4.6 • microsoft .net framework 4.6.1 • microsoft .net framework 4.8 • microsoft .net framework 3.5.1 • microsoft .net framework 4.5.2

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