Red Hat’s .NET 8 update addresses 21 CVEs, including ASP.NET Core authentication bypasses
The Important-rated RHEL 9.6 update moves the SDK to 8.0.130 and runtime to 8.0.30 across extended-service channels.
Red Hat has issued an Important security update for .NET 8.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 extended-service channels, addressing 21 listed CVEs across .NET and ASP.NET Core. The RHSA-2026:58569 advisory, issued August 24, moves the SDK to version 8.0.130 and the runtime to 8.0.30.
What changed
The advisory groups a broad set of flaws into one .NET 8.0 update. Among them are two ASP.NET Core issues described by Red Hat as privilege-elevation vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-47300 involves an incorrect authentication algorithm, while CVE-2026-47303 is an authentication bypass. Other listed problems include security-feature and authorization bypasses, local code-execution paths, information disclosure, spoofing and several denial-of-service conditions.
One network-facing item, CVE-2026-50651, concerns an HTTP/2 SETTINGS/PING acknowledgement flood in SocketsHttpHandler that can exhaust memory. The advisory also lists CVE-2026-56170 as uncontrolled resource allocation in ASP.NET Core and CVE-2026-57108 as a .NET Core denial of service caused by type confusion.
Red Hat rates the combined update Important rather than assigning that label independently to every CVE in the bundle. Operators should use the individual CVE links in the advisory when they need per-vulnerability severity and scoring details.
Who is affected
The affected-product list covers RHEL 9.6 Extended Update Support on x86_64, Arm, IBM Z and little-endian Power, along with corresponding CodeReady Linux Builder channels. It also names 9.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions, Advanced Update Support and Extended Life Cycle variants.
That scope matters for teams that deliberately remain on a 9.6 service stream: the fix is packaged for those pinned channels rather than requiring a move to a later RHEL minor release.
What to do
Red Hat’s prescribed remediation is to apply the updated packages through the normal RHEL update process. Teams running ASP.NET Core services should prioritize inventorying hosts on the listed 9.6 channels, confirm that the installed SDK and runtime advance to 8.0.130 and 8.0.30, and then run their usual application regression checks.
The advisory also includes one build-system improvement that reduces the time needed to detect hanging .NET RPM builds. That change is secondary to the security fixes, but it arrives in the same package update.
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