CVE-2026-54778

Summary

CoreWCF is a port of the service side of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to .NET Core. Prior to 1.8.1 and 1.9.1, CoreWCF UnixDomainSocket POSIX peer identity resolution uses non-reentrant getpwuid and getgrgid calls, allowing concurrent connections to attribute one connection's identity to another or crash the host process under contention. This issue is fixed in versions 1.8.1 and 1.9.1.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
CoreWCFCoreWCF>= 1.9.0, < 1.9.1affected
CoreWCFCoreWCF< 1.8.1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-362: CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
  • CWE-825: CWE-825: Expired Pointer Dereference

References