Tag: security

A complete guide to CORS for a bearer-token API in ASP.NET Core 11: the correct UseCors ordering relative to authentication, why a bearer token in the Authorization header is not a CORS credential, why AllowAnyHeader works but a manual wildcard does not cover Authorization, and how to keep preflight from failing.

.NET 11 Preview 5 adds a first-class X25519DiffieHellman type to System.Security.Cryptography, so you can do Curve25519 key exchange without BouncyCastle or NSec.

Anthropic shipped a free security-guidance plugin for Claude Code that scans the agent's own edits for vulnerabilities in three layers, from a no-cost pattern match to an agentic review on commit.

NuGet Package Pruning shipped on-by-default for net10.0 projects, cutting transitive vulnerability reports by 70% and restore times by up to 50%.

Microsoft's new Microsoft.AgentGovernance package wraps MCP tool calls with a policy kernel, a security scanner, and a response sanitizer. Here is what each piece does and how the wiring looks in C#.

Aspire 13.2.4 ships an OpenTelemetry bump for CVE-2026-40894, a Gen0 allocation amplification in baggage, B3, and Jaeger propagator parsing. Update OpenTelemetry.Api and OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Propagators to 1.15.3 even if you are not on Aspire.

A HMAC validation flaw in Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection 10.0.0 through 10.0.6 lets attackers forge ciphertexts. .NET 10.0.7 is the mandatory fix.

.NET 10 adds native support for post-quantum cryptography algorithms ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA, preparing your applications for a quantum-resistant future.