CVE-2013-3861 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-3861?

CVE-2013-3861 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft .Net Framework, published on 9 Oct 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2, 3.5, 3.5 SP1, 3.5.1, 4, and 4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or hang) via crafted character sequences in JSON data, aka "JSON Parsing Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-3861?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft .Net Framework.

How do I fix CVE-2013-3861?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-3861 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2013-3861 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-3861 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-9q6c-gh3r-qpjr.