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.NET 7 STS, end of life since 14 May 2024

.NET 7 end of life

.NET 7 stopped receiving security fixes on 14 May 2024; its last release is 7.0.20. Microsoft no longer checks whether new vulnerabilities affect .NET 7, so its advisories, and the US National Vulnerability Database, stop listing it. Since that date Microsoft has fixed 70 vulnerabilities in .NET 8.

  • 36vulnerabilities fixed while supported
  • 1critical
  • 28high
  • 2exploited in the wild

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All 36 vulnerabilities Microsoft fixed in .NET 7

US National Vulnerability Database, 28 October 2026, highest score first: vulnerabilities in .NET and ASP.NET Core that affect .NET 7. Fixed in: the first .NET 7 release with the fix, where NVD records it. Exploited: listed in the CISA catalogue of known exploited vulnerabilities.

CVEScoreSeverityPublishedFixed inDescription
CVE-2024-00579.1Critical2024-01-097.0.15NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
CVE-2024-00568.7High2024-01-097.0.15Microsoft.Data.SqlClient and System.Data.SqlClient SQL Data Provider Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
CVE-2023-331278.1High2023-07-117.0.9.NET and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-331708.1High2023-07-117.0.9ASP.NET and Visual Studio Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
CVE-2023-218087.8High2023-02-14n/a.NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-248957.8High2023-06-14n/a.NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-248977.8High2023-06-14n/a.NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-282607.8High2023-04-117.0.5.NET DLL Hijacking Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-353907.8High2023-08-087.0.10.NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-367927.8High2023-09-12n/aVisual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-367937.8High2023-09-12n/aVisual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-367947.8High2023-09-12n/aVisual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-367967.8High2023-09-12n/aVisual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-360497.6High2023-11-147.0.14.NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-249367.5High2023-06-14n/a.NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-293317.5High2023-06-14n/a.NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2023-364357.5High2023-10-10n/aMicrosoft QUIC Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2023-381717.5High2023-10-107.0.12Microsoft QUIC Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2023-38180 Exploited7.5High2023-08-087.0.10.NET and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2023-44487 Exploited7.5High2023-10-107.0.12The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.
CVE-2024-206727.5High2024-01-097.0.15.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2024-213867.5High2024-02-137.0.16.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2024-213927.5High2024-03-127.0.17.NET and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2024-214047.5High2024-02-137.0.16.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2024-261907.5High2024-03-127.0.17Microsoft QUIC Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2023-331267.3High2023-06-147.0.7.NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-331287.3High2023-06-147.0.7.NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-331357.3High2023-06-147.0.7.NET and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2024-214097.3High2024-04-097.0.18.NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2024-213196.8Medium2024-01-097.0.15Microsoft Identity Denial of service vulnerability
CVE-2023-320326.5Medium2023-06-147.0.7.NET and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-367996.5Medium2023-09-12n/a.NET Core and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2024-300456.3Medium2024-05-147.0.19.NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2023-353916.2Medium2023-08-087.0.10ASP.NET Core SignalR and Visual Studio Information Disclosure Vulnerability
CVE-2023-365586.2Medium2023-11-147.0.14ASP.NET Core Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
CVE-2024-300465.9Medium2024-05-147.0.19Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability