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Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (April 2020)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 135481

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Synopsis

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

 - An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Visual Studio updater service improperly handles file permissions. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite arbitrary file content in the security context of the local system. (CVE-2020-0899)

 - An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Visual Studio Extension Installer Service improperly handles file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could delete files in arbitrary locations with elevated permissions. (CVE-2020-0900)

Solution

Microsoft has released the following security updates to address this issue:
 - KB4540102 (for Visual Studio 2015)
 - Update 15.9.22 for Visual Studio 2017
 - Update 16.0.13 for Visual Studio 2019
 - Update 16.4.7 for Visual Studio 2019
 - Update 16.5.4 for Visual Studio 2019

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f3cd44a9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 135481

File Name: smb_nt_ms20_apr_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 4/14/2020

Updated: 6/27/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-0900

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:visual_studio

Required KB Items: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible, installed_sw/Microsoft Visual Studio

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-0899, CVE-2020-0900

IAVA: 2020-A-0148-S

MSFT: MS20-4540102

MSKB: 4540102