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Use After Free

CVE-2024-38229

High
8.1/10

Summary

.NET and Visual Studio are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This issue affects .NET versions 8.0.0 through 8.0.8 and 9.0.0-preview.1.24081.5 through 9.0.0-rc.1.24452.1.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published