CVE-2021-31204

.NET and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: May 11, 2021
Updated: Oct 7, 2026
Reserved: Apr 14, 2021

Description

.NET and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.3 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
.NET Core 3.1Microsoft	3.1 to before 3.1.15-servicing.21214.3Affected
.NET 5.0Microsoft	5.0.0 to before 5.0.6-servicing.21220.11Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 (includes 16.0 - 16.8)Microsoft	15.0.0 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
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.9Microsoft	8.0 to before publicationAffected

References

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2021-31204
FEDORA-2021-a3c205f5b2vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2021-13e3bd248fvendor-advisory
FEDORA-2021-721731dc86vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2021-c06b64b5eevendor-advisory
FEDORA-2021-f25eb9e302vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2021-d551431950vendor-advisory

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