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High MSRC-CVE-2023-36049 1 CVE

.NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Nov 14, 2023 · Updated Jan 26, 2024 · Revision 4

Vendor: Microsoft

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
To exploit this vulnerability an attacker would have to inject arbitrary commands to the FTP server.

What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability would be access controls on the server, allowing for read or write abilities.

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

Security updates
17.2.22 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
17.4.14 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
8.0.0 — https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/287
6.0.25 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032883
7.0.14 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032884
4.8.9206.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032007
4.8.9206.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032004
4.8.4682.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5031989
4.8.9206.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032341
4.8.9206.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032185
4.8.4682.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032342
4.8.4682.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032343
4.8.4682.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032337
4.8.4682.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032336
4.8.4682.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032340
4.8.4682.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032338
4.8.4682.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032339
10.0.14393.6452 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032197
4.7.4076.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032344
4.7.4076.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032186
10.0.10240.20308 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5032199

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #4

    Updated one or more CVSS scores for the affected products and added an FAQ explaining the vector string settings. This is an informational change only.

  2. #3

    Updated the build numbers. This is an informational update only.

  3. #2

    Revised the Security Updates table to include PowerShell 7.2, PowerShell 7.3, and PowerShell 7.4 because these versions of PowerShell 7 are affected by this vulnerability. See [https://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/issues/54](https://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/issues/54) for more information.

  4. #1

    Information published.

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