CVE-2024-43590HighCVSS 7.8
Visual C++ Redistributable Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could create, modify, or delete files in the security context of the NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM account.
🎯 Affected products7
- 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 17.10
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.11
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8
- Visual C++ Redistributable Installer
✅ Remediation
KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 14.40.33816 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 15.9.67 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 16.11.41 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.6.20 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.8.15 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.10.8 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.11.5
🔗 References (11)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-43590
- patchhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170
- 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 16.11
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.11
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6
- referencehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.11