Microsoft Visual Studio up to 2019 16.6 privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Visual Studio and classified as critical. The affected element is an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to privileges management. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-1416. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. There is not any exploit available. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Visual Studio (Programming Tool Software). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code when they load software dependencies, aka 'Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

The weakness was released 07/14/2020 as confirmed security update guide (Website). The advisory is available at portal.msrc.microsoft.com. The public release was coordinated with the vendor. This vulnerability was named CVE-2020-1416. Local access is required to approach this attack. A single authentication is needed for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project. The advisory points out:

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code when they load software dependencies. A local attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could inject arbitrary code to run in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

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Type

• Programming Tool Software

Vendor

• Microsoft

Name

• Visual Studio

Version

• 2017 15.0
• 2017 15.1
• 2017 15.2
• 2017 15.3
• 2017 15.4
• 2017 15.5
• 2017 15.6
• 2017 15.7
• 2017 15.8
• 2017 15.9
• 2019 16.0
• 2019 16.1
• 2019 16.2
• 2019 16.3
• 2019 16.4
• 2019 16.5
• 2019 16.6

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.microsoft.com/

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