CVE-2014-4072 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-4072?

CVE-2014-4072 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft .Net Framework, published on 10 Sep 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SP1, 2.0 SP2, 3.0 SP2, 3.5, 3.5.1, 4, 4.5, 4.5.1, and 4.5.2 does not properly use a hash table for request data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and ASP.NET performance degradation) via crafted requests, aka ".NET Framework Denial of Service Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-4072?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft .Net Framework.

How do I fix CVE-2014-4072?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-4072 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-2014-4072 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-4072 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2024-29059 Microsoft .NET Framework Information Disclosure Exploited High 7.5
• CVE-2014-4073 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0

All Microsoft .Net Framework vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-mf5r-75x7-f326.