CVE-2020-0884High
Microsoft Visual Studio Spoofing Vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
A spoofing vulnerability exists in Microsoft Visual Studio as it includes a reply URL that is not secured by SSL. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could compromise the access tokens, exposing security and privacy risks. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to monitor the network traffic between a client machine and server while the end user is developing an Outlook Web Add-in, and the client also has two-factor authentication enabled in Outlook. The update addresses the vulnerability by securing the reply URL with HTTPS.
🎯 Affected products3
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.0
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 (includes 16.0 - 16.3)
✅ Remediation
KBRelease Notes (Security Update)