CVE-2024-38081

.NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Jul 9, 2024
Updated: Dec 9, 2025
Reserved: Jun 11, 2024

Description

.NET, .NET Framework, 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-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4Microsoft	17.4.0 to before 17.4.21Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6Microsoft	17.6.0 to before 17.6.17Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8Microsoft	17.8.0 to before 17.8.12Affected
.NET 6.0Microsoft	6.0.0 to before 6.0.32Affected
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2/4.7/4.7.1/4.7.2Microsoft	4.7.0 to before 4.7.4101.02Affected
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.8.1Microsoft	4.8.1 to before 4.8.1.9256.03Affected
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2Microsoft	4.7.0 to before 4.7.4101.01Affected
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6/4.6.2Microsoft	10.0.0.0 to before 10.0.10240.20710Affected
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2Microsoft	2.0.0 to before 2.0.50727.8977Affected
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 2Microsoft	3.0.0 to before 2.0.50727.8977Affected
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5Microsoft	3.5.0 to before 3.5.30729.8972Affected
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1Microsoft	3.5.0 to before 3.5.30729.8971Affected
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8Microsoft	4.8.0 to before 4.8.04739.02Affected
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.8Microsoft	4.8.0 to before 4.8.4739.04Affected
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.7.2Microsoft	4.7.0 to before 4.7.2.4101.03Affected

References

.NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityvendor-advisory

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