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High MSRC-CVE-2023-33139 1 CVE

Visual Studio Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Published Jun 13, 2023 · Updated Jun 13, 2023

Summary

Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially read small portions of heap memory.

According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is information disclosure?
The attack itself is carried out locally. For example, when the score indicates that the Attack Vector is Local and User Interaction is Required, this could describe an exploit in which an attacker, through social engineering, convinces a victim to download and open a specially crafted file from a website which leads to a local attack on their computer which could leak data.

Security updates
15.9.55 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
17.2.16 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
16.11.27 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.11
17.0.22 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes-v17.0
17.4.8 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
12.0.40702.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5026454
14.0.27554.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5026455

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

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