Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (January 2021)

high Nessus Plugin ID 144977

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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. An attacker can exploit this to gain elevated privileges.
(CVE-2021-1651, CVE-2021-1680)

- A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to cause the affected component to deny system or application services. (CVE-2021-1723)

- A remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to bypass authentication and execute unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2020-26870)

Solution

Microsoft has released the following security updates to address this issue:
- Install KB4584787 for Visual Studio 2015
- Update 15.9.31 for Visual Studio 2017
- Update 16.0.22 for Visual Studio 2019
- Update 16.4.17 for Visual Studio 2019
- Update 16.7.10 for Visual Studio 2019
- Update 16.8.4 for Visual Studio 2019

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 144977

File Name: smb_nt_ms21_jan_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows : Microsoft Bulletins

Published: 1/14/2021

Updated: 1/30/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-1651

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-1680

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:visual_studio

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/12/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26870, CVE-2021-1651, CVE-2021-1680, CVE-2021-1723

IAVA: 2021-A-0021

MSFT: MS21-4584787

MSKB: 4584787

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