MSRC-CVE-2024-38229 — .NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Summary

Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

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 win a race condition.

Security updates
17.6.20 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
8.0.10 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5045993

Vulnerabilities 1

High 8.1

CVE-2024-38229

.NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

.NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 Ubuntu Alpine NuGet

Oct 8, 2024

Revision history

2024-10-09 #2
Updated acknowledgment. This is an informational change only.
2024-10-08 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2024-38229 .NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38229
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