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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-0249

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the ASP.NET Core fails to properly sanitize web requests.

HIGH 7.3EPSS 4.25%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.25%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the ASP.NET Core fails to properly sanitize web requests.

CVSS 3.0
7.3 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS
4.25% probability · 91th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-20
Affected
microsoft/asp.net model view controller · microsoft/microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.abstractions · microsoft/microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.apiexplorer · microsoft/microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.cors · microsoft/microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.dataannotations · microsoft/microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.formatters.json · microsoft/microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.formatters.xml · microsoft/microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.localization · microsoft/microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.razor · microsoft/microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.razor.host · microsoft/microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.taghelpers · microsoft/microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.viewfeatures · microsoft/microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.webapicompatshim · microsoft/system.net.http · microsoft/system.net.http.winhttphandler · microsoft/system.net.security · microsoft/system.net.websockets.client · microsoft/system.text.encodings.web
Source
secure@microsoft.com
EPSS trend
0%5%10%21 September 2026: 7.82%22 September 2026: 4.17%27 October 2026: 4.25%21 September 202627 October 2026

EPSS moved from 7.8% on 21 September 2026 to 4.2% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.