{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00012121","kind":"vulnerability","title":"Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2026-96960 - .NET and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-7hqp-7c5m-4vq6","CVE-2026-96960"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for System.Security.Cryptography.Xml, System.Security.Cryptography.Xml, System.Security.Cryptography.Xml, System.Security.Cryptography.Xml. 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This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-ad9ff1ad36fbf7da9fa279061b28654b","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7hqp-7c5m-4vq6","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-7hqp-7c5m-4vq6","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-10-31T23:14:14.588Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-ad9ff1ad36fbf7da9fa279061b28654b"],"technology":"System.Security.Cryptography.Xml","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Executive summary\n\nMicrosoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in System.Security.Cryptography.Xml; System.Private.Xml. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability.\n\nSigned XML fixes add input-depth and operation-count limits, prohibit DTD processing by default, validate entity references, bound encrypted-data candidate processing, and cap attributes and namespaces used by C14N transforms.\n\n## Announcement\n\nAnnouncement for this issue can be found at https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/490\n\n## CVSS Details\n\n- **Version:** 3.1\n- **Severity:** High\n- **Score:** 7.5\n- **Vector:** `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`\n\n- **Weakness:** CWE-405 (Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification))\n## Affected Platforms\n\n- **Platforms:** Windows, Linux, macOS\n- **Architectures:** All\n\n## Affected Packages\n\nThe vulnerability affects Microsoft .NET projects that use an affected package version listed below.\n\nPackage name | Affected version | Patched version\n------------ | ---------------- | ---------------\n[System.Secu","public_affected_ranges":[">= 10.0.0, <= 10.0.12"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-ad9ff1ad36fbf7da9fa279061b28654b"],"technology":"System.Security.Cryptography.Xml","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Executive summary\n\nMicrosoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in System.Security.Cryptography.Xml; System.Private.Xml. 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