CVE-2026-96236

## Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in Microsoft.AspNetCore.Localization. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability. ASP.NET Core request-localization fallback can add attacker-supplied synthetic culture names to the runtime's global cache, allowing unauthenticated requests to cause unbounded memory growth and denial of service. ## Announcement Announcement for this issue can be found at https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/484 ## CVSS Details - **Version:** 3.1 - **Severity:** High - **Score:** 7.5 - **Vector:** `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H` - **Weakness:** CWE-770 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling) ## Affected Platforms - **Platforms:** Windows, Linux, macOS - **Architectures:** All ## <a name="affected-packages"></a>Affected Packages The vulnerability affects Microsoft .NET projects that use an affected package version listed below. Package name | Affected version | Patched version ------------ | ---------------- | --------------- [Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-arm](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-arm) | >= 8.0.0, <= 8.0.31 | 8.0.32 [Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-arm64](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-arm64) | >= 8.0.0, <= 8.0.31 | 8.0.32 [Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-arm](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-arm) | >= 8.0.0, <= 8.0.31 | 8.0.32 [Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-arm64](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-arm64) | >= 8.0.0, <= 8.0.31 | 8.0.32 [Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-x64](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-x64) | >= 8.0.0, <= 8.0.31 | 8.0.32 [Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-x64](h