CVE-2019-1486High

Visual Studio Live Share Spoofing Vulnerability

Published
December 10, 2019
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A spoofing vulnerability exists in Visual Studio Live Share when a guest connected to a Live Share session is redirected to an arbitrary URL specified by the session host. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a connected guest's computer to open a browser and navigate to a URL without consent from the guest. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would need to host a Live Share session and convince a targeted user to connect to the session. The update addresses the vulnerability by prompting the Live Share guest for consent prior to browsing to the host-specified URL.

🎯 Affected products4

  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.0
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 (includes 16.0 - 16.3)
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Code Live Share extension
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Live Share extension

✅ Remediation

KBRelease Notes (Security Update)

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