Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.
Details
Security updates
18.7.4 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2026/release-notes
17.12.22 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Protection mechanism failure in Visual Studio allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-47305 Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-47305
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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