CVE-2024-20656

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Jan 9, 2024
Updated: May 3, 2025
Reserved: Nov 28, 2023

Description

Visual Studio 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:U/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft

Weaknesses

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)Microsoft	15.9.0 to before 15.9.59Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2Microsoft	17.2.0 to before 17.2.23Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10)Microsoft	16.11.0 to before 16.11.33Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4Microsoft	17.4.0 to before 17.4.15Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6Microsoft	17.6.0 to before 17.6.11Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3Microsoft	14.0.0 to before 14.0.27560.00Affected

References

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityvendor-advisory

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