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High MSRC-CVE-2023-28260 1 CVE

.NET DLL Hijacking Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Apr 11, 2023 · Updated Apr 13, 2023 · Revision 2

Vendor: Microsoft

Summary

Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.

Details

According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Any authenticated user could trigger this vulnerability. It does not require admin or other elevated privileges.

According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is a remote code execution?
The word Remote in the title refers to the location of the attacker. This type of exploit is sometimes referred to as Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). The attack itself is carried out locally. This means an attacker or victim needs to execute code from the local machine to exploit the vulnerability.

Security updates
6.0.16 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5025915
7.0.5 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5025916
17.5.4 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
17.2.15 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
17.0.21 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes-v17.0
7.3.4 — https://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/issues/39

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #2

    Revised the Security Updates table to include PowerShell 7.2 and PowerShell 7.3 because these versions of PowerShell 7 are affected by this vulnerability. See [https://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/issues/39](https://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/issues/39) for more information.

  2. #1

    Information published.

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