CVE tracker / CVE-2024-43485
CVE-2024-43485
CVE-2024-43485 is the .NET and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability. Microsoft rates it Important, CVSS 7.5. It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Published October 8, 2024.
Risk summary
HighDenial of Service
7.5
CVSS v3 base
3.1%
EPSS: chance of exploitation in 30 days
High
Severity
Important
Microsoft's rating
Less Likely
Microsoft: exploitation
No
In CISA KEV
How to fix it
Microsoft lists 15 affected products and the update that fixes each:
- KB5045993 · fixed build 8.0.10
.NET 8.0 installed on Windows, .NET 8.0 installed on Mac OS, .NET 8.0 installed on Linux - KB5045998 · fixed build 6.0.35
.NET 6.0 installed on Mac OS, .NET 6.0 installed on Windows, .NET 6.0 installed on Linux - Release Notes · fixed build 7.5.0, 7.4.6, 7.2.24
PowerShell 7.5 installed on Windows, PowerShell 7.5 installed on Linux, PowerShell 7.5 installed on MacOS, PowerShell 7.4, PowerShell 7.2, and 4 more
What Microsoft changed
- October 23, 2024: Revised the Security Updates table to include PowerShell 7.2 and PowerShell 7.4 because these versions of PowerShell 7 are affected by this vulnerability. See https://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/issues/71 for more information.
- October 9, 2024: Updated acknowledgment. This is an informational change only.
- October 8, 2024: Information published.
- January 29, 2025: Revised the Security Updates table to include PowerShell 7.5 installed on Windows, PowerShell 7.5 installed on Linux, and PowerShell 7.5 installed on MacOC because these versions of PowerShell 7 are affected by this vulnerability. See https://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/issues/71 for more information.
Details
- Weakness
- CWE-407: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
- Publicly disclosed (Microsoft)
- No
- Exploited (Microsoft)
- No
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- Not listed
- Published
- October 8, 2024
- Last revised
- January 29, 2025
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References
From Microsoft, CISA, NVD and FIRST data; the Microsoft details were read when this page was opened. Check the references above before you act.