Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R) and privileges required is Low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability? An authenticated attacker could create a malicious extension and then wait for an authenticated user to create a new Visual Studio project that uses that extension. The result is that the attacker could gain the privileges of the user.
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability? Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to gather information specific to the environment and take additional actions prior to exploitation to prepare the target environment.
According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to some loss of availability (A:L)? What does that mean for this vulnerability? The performance can be interrupted and/or reduced, but the attacker cannot fully deny service.
🎯 Affected products6
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8
✅ Remediation
KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.10.2 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 15.9.63 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 16.11.37 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.4.20 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.6.16 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.8.11
🔗 References (10)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-29060
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10
- referencehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
- patchhttp://aka.ms/vs/15/release/latest
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.11
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8