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High MSRC-CVE-2023-33128 1 CVE

.NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Jun 13, 2023 · Updated Jun 29, 2023 · Revision 2

Summary

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

Details

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.

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 authorized attacker must send the user a malicious file and convince the user to open it.

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 vector is local (AV:L). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
The attacker would have to be an authenticated user logged on to the vulnerable system to be able to exploit this vulnerability.

Security updates
6.0.18 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027797
7.0.7 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5027798
17.0.22 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes-v17.0
17.2.16 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
17.4.8 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
7.3.5 — https://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/issues/47

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #2

    Revised the Security Updates table to include PowerShell 7.3 because this version of PowerShell 7 is affected by this vulnerability. See [https://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/issues/47](https://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/issues/47) for more information.

  2. #1

    Information published.

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