CVE-2023-28260HighCVSS 7.8

.NET DLL Hijacking Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published
April 11, 2023
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2023-28260 →

📋 Description

According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability? Any authenticated user could trigger this vulnerability. It does not require admin or other elevated privileges.

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 products8

  • .NET 6.0
  • .NET 7.0
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5
  • PowerShell 7.2
  • PowerShell 7.3

✅ Remediation

KB5025915 (Security Update) — fixed build 6.0.16 KB5025916 (Security Update) — fixed build 7.0.5 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.5.4 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.4.7 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.2.15 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.0.21 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 7.3.4 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 7.2.11

🔗 References (8)