Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker would only be able to delete targeted files on a system. They would not gain privileges to view or modify file contents.
Security updates
10.0.17763.2300 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007206
10.0.18363.1916 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007189
10.0.19043.1348 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007186
10.0.20348.350 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007205
10.0.22000.318 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007215
10.0.10240.19119 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007207
10.0.14393.4770 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007192
15.9.41 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
16.7.21 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.7
16.9.13 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.9
16.11.6 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.11
27550.00 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5007275
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.5
Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2021-42277 Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-42277
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss