MSRC-CVE-2023-28262 — Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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 who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.

Security updates
17.2.15 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
16.11.26 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.11
17.0.21 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes-v17.0
17.4.7 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2023-28262

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10) Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4 Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2

Apr 11, 2023

Revision history

2023-04-11 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2023-28262 Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-28262
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss