Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
The Microsoft.NetCore.App.Runtime packages for linux, linux-musl, osx and win platforms (including arm, arm64, x64 and x86 variants) are affected in .NET 8.0 versions from 8.0.0 through 8.0.20 and .NET 9.0 versions from 9.0.0 through 9.0.9. A man-in-the-middle attacker can prevent TLS from being used between a client and an SMTP server, forcing the client to send data unencrypted. Upgrade to 8.0.21 or 9.0.10; no workaround is listed.
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Severity and exploitation
| Score | Rating | CVSS | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.8 | Medium | 3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C | CNA (microsoft) |
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.0074, the 54th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
- 14 Oct 2025, 22:11 UTC Published by the maintainers as a GitHub repository advisory
- 31 Oct 2026, 15:21 UTC First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 15:21 UTC Confirmed by OSV
Sources
- GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-gwq6-fmvp-qp68
- OSV: GHSA-gwq6-fmvp-qp68
- github.com/dotnet/runtime/security/advisories/GHSA-gwq6-fmvp-qp68
- github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/372
- github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/120713
- github.com/dotnet/runtime
- msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-55248