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CVE-2023-21538

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-21538 is a Denial of Service vulnerability affecting Microsoft .NET, Fedora .NET, and PowerShell products. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), it can be exploited remotely without authentication or user interaction, leading to a complete denial of service. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:.net:6.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powershell:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
36CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
37CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0274 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (17)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: PowerShell 7.2Fixed in: 7.2.9
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: .NET 6.0Fixed in: 6.0.13
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nugetpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-armFixed in: 6.0.13
nugetpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-arm64Fixed in: 6.0.13
nugetpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-x64Fixed in: 6.0.13
nugetpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.linux-x64Fixed in: 6.0.13
nugetpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.osx-arm64Fixed in: 6.0.13
nugetpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.osx-x64Fixed in: 6.0.13
nugetpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.linux-armFixed in: 6.0.13
nugetpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.win-arm64Fixed in: 6.0.13
nugetpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.win-x64Fixed in: 6.0.13
nugetpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.win-x86Fixed in: 6.0.13
nugetpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.win-armFixed in: 6.0.13
nugetpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.linux-arm64Fixed in: 6.0.13
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: dotnet6.0-0:6.0.113-1.el9_1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: dotnet6.0-0:6.0.113-1.el8_7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise LinuxFixed in: rh-dotnet60-dotnet-0:6.0.113-1.el7_9
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Vendor Advisories (3)

nugetGHSA-8f7f-vqg5-jrv9high

.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability

Jan 10, 2023
microsoft2023-Jan/CVE-2023-21538Important

.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability

Jan 10, 2023
redhatCVE-2023-21538Moderate

dotnet: Parsing an empty HTTP response as a JSON.NET JObject causes a stack overflow and crashes a process

Jan 10, 2023

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-21538