MSRC-CVE-2023-36758 — 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?
A domain user could use this vulnerability to elevate privileges to SYSTEM assigned integrity level.

Security updates
17.7.4 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2023-36758

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7

Sep 12, 2023

Revision history

2023-09-12 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2023-36758 Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36758
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