Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is a remote code execution? The word Remote in the title refers to the location of the attacker. This type of exploit is sometimes referred to as Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). The attack itself is carried out locally. This means an attacker or victim needs to execute code from the local machine to exploit the vulnerability.
🎯 Affected products7
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Update 5
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4
✅ Remediation
KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 15.9.52 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.2.13 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 16.11.24 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.0.19 KB5026610 (Security Update) — fixed build 12.0.40700.0 KB5025792 (Security Update) — fixed build 14.0.27555.0 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.4.5
🔗 References (15)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-21815
- 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 2022 version 17.2
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.11
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes-v17.0
- patchhttps://aka.ms/vs/12/release/5026610
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/help/5026610
- patchhttps://aka.ms/vs/14/release/5025792
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/help/5025792
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4
- referencehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes