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
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Medium 5.5
Visual Studio Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Visual Studio Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2023-33139 Visual Studio Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-33139
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss