CVE-2020-17156HighCVSS 7.8
Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability? To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to convince a targeted user to clone a malicious repository from inside Visual Studio. Attacker-specified code would execute during the clone operation.
🎯 Affected products5
- 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)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 (includes 16.0 – 16.6)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8
✅ Remediation
KBRelease Notes (Security Update)
🔗 References (11)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2020-17156
- patchhttp://aka.ms/vs/15/release/latest
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2019 version 16.0
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.0
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.4
- patchhttp://aka.ms/vs/16/release/latest
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.8
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.7