CVE-2021-27064

Visual Studio Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Apr 13, 2021
Updated: Aug 15, 2025
Reserved: Feb 10, 2021

Description

Visual Studio Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)Microsoft	15.9.0 to before publicationAffected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 (includes 16.0 - 16.3)Microsoft	16.0 to before publicationAffected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 (includes 16.0 – 16.6)Microsoft	16.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 (includes 16.0 - 16.8)Microsoft	15.0.0 to before publicationAffected

References

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2021-27064

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