MSRC-CVE-2024-20656 — 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 this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

Security updates
15.9.59 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
17.2.23 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
16.11.33 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.11
17.4.15 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
14.0.27560.00 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5030979

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2024-20656 Public exploit

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10) Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)

Jan 9, 2024

Revision history

2024-01-09 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2024-20656 Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-20656
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