CVE-2026-26171

.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Apr 14, 2026
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Feb 11, 2026

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Description

Uncontrolled resource consumption in .NET allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hredhat-SADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
  • CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
.NET 10.0Microsoft
  • 10.0.0 to before 10.0.6Affected
.NET 8.0Microsoft
  • 8.0.0 to before 8.0.26Affected
.NET 9.0Microsoft
  • 9.0.0 to before 9.0.15Affected
PowerShell 7.5Microsoft
  • 7.5.0 to before 7.5.6Affected
PowerShell 7.6Microsoft
  • 7.6.0 to before 7.6.1Affected

References

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