CVE-2018-0875

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2018-03-13
Bugzilla:
1552060: CVE-2018-0875 .NET Core: Hash Collision Denial of Service
It was found that string comparisons in .NET Core did not use a secure hashing algorithm. This could allow an attacker to predict string hashes and cause a denial of service by intentionally creating collisions thus forcing long look up times.

Find out more about CVE-2018-0875 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 3.7
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Low

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
.NET Core 2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (rh-dotnet20-dotnet) RHSA-2018:0522 2018-03-14
.NET Core 1.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore) RHSA-2018:0522 2018-03-14
.NET Core 1.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore) RHSA-2018:0522 2018-03-14

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Ben Adams (Illyriad Games) for reporting this issue.

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