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.
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to gather information specific to the environment of the targeted component.
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 authenticated attacker must send the victim a malicious file and convince them to open it.
Security updates
17.2.19 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
16.11.30 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.11
17.4.11 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 6.7
Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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References
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CVE-2023-36759 Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36759
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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