ASP.NET Security Issue
Microsoft has sent out an email to warn users of a possible security issue with ASP.NET, heres the email i got:
Dear ASP.NET Customer,
This alert is to advise you of the availability of a web page that
discusses an investigation Microsoft is currently conducting into
public reports of a security vulnerability in ASP.NET. A malicious
user could provide a specially-formed URL that could result in the
unintended serving of secured content.
This alert is also to advise you of the availability of a new
Microsoft Knowledge Base article: 887459. This article contains
prescriptive guidance with steps customers can implement on their
ASP.NET applications to help protect against a wide variety of
malformed URL attacks.
Microsoft is providing this prescriptive guidance in order to inform
customers as quickly as possible about the vulnerability and
information on how to prevent an attack. Microsoft is actively
investigating this issue and plans to release additional guidance
and a security update to remedy the issue as soon as possible.
The Microsoft Knowledge Base article can be viewed here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=887459
The web page that discusses the current investigation into the
public reports of a vulnerability in ASP.Net can be viewed here:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/aspnet.mspx
If you have any questions, please see the discussion in the ASP.NET
Security Forums at:
http://www.asp.net/Forums/ShowForum.aspx?tabindex=1&ForumID=25
Thank you,
The Microsoft ASP.NET Team
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