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High MSRC-CVE-2022-24512 1 CVE

.NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Mar 8, 2022 · Updated Apr 14, 2023 · Revision 4

Vendor: Microsoft

Summary

Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited, publicly disclosed before the fix — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to minor loss of confidentiality (C:L), integrity (I:L) and availability (A:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
While we cannot rule out the impact to Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability, the ability to exploit this vulnerability by itself is limited. An attacker would need to combine this with other vulnerabilities to perform an attack.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that a user trigger the payload in the application.

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 chain other vulnerabilities in order to successfully gain unauthorized access to the target environment.

Security updates
16.7.26 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.7
16.9.18 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.9
16.11.11 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.11
17.0.7 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
5.0.15 — https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/213
7.2.2 — https://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/issues/29

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #4

    Added FAQ information. This is an informational change only.

  2. #3

    Revised the Security Updates table to include PowerShell 7.0, PowerShell 7.1, and PowerShell 7.2 because these versions of PowerShell 7 are affected by this vulnerability. See [https://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/issues/29](https://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/issues/29) for more information.

  3. #1

    Information published.

  4. #2

    Corrected Article links in the Security Updates table. This is an informational change only.

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