CVE-2024-43499

Summary

CVE-2024-43499 is a newly disclosed Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability affecting both .NET and Visual Studio applications. Malicious actors can exploit this issue by sending specifically crafted requests to vulnerable systems, leading to a resource exhaustion condition. Consequently, the targeted applications may become unresponsive or even crash, rendering them inaccessible to legitimate users. Microsoft is currently working on a patch to address this vulnerability, and users are strongly urged to apply it as soon as it becomes available to mitigate potential risks. In the meantime, it is recommended to implement network protection measures to block malicious traffic that may attempt to exploit this vulnerability.

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