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High MSRC-CVE-2024-38081 1 CVE

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

Published Jul 9, 2024 · Updated Aug 13, 2024 · Revision 3

Vendor: Microsoft

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.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that a local user executes the Visual Studio installer

According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
The attacker must have permissions to access the target domain environment to be able to exploit this vulnerability.

Security updates
17.4.21 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
6.0.32 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041080
4.7.4101.02 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041022
4.7.4101.02 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041023
4.8.1.9256.03 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041016
4.8.9256.03 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041020
4.8.1.9256.03 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041018
4.8.1.9256.03 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5039895
4.8.1.9256.03 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041019
10.0.25398.1009 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040438
4.7.4101.01 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041024
4.7.4101.01 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041027
10.0.10240.20710 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040448
3.5.30729.8971 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041021
3.5.30729.8971 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041026
4.8.04739.02 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5039885
4.8.4739.04 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5041017
10.0.14393.7159 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5040434

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #3

    Corrected Article and Download entries in the Affected Products table. This is an informational change only.

  2. #2

    In the Security Updates table, made the following corrections: 1) Added .NET 6.0 as it is affected by this vulnerability. 2) Removed .NET 8.0 as it is not affected by this vulnerability. 3) Corrected Download and Article links for .NET 3.5 and 4.7.2 installed on Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit Systems.

  3. #1

    Information published.

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