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Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (April 2022)

high Nessus Plugin ID 159733

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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-2022-24513, CVE-2022-24765, CVE-2021-43877)

- A DLL hijacking vulnerability. An authenticated attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-24767)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Microsoft has released the following security updates to address this issue:
- Update 15.9.46 for Visual Studio 2017
- Update 16.7.27 for Visual Studio 2019
- Update 16.9.19 for Visual Studio 2019
- Update 16.11.12 for Visual Studio 2019
- Update 17.0.8 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.1.4 for Visual Studio 2022

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 159733

File Name: smb_nt_ms22_apr_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows : Microsoft Bulletins

Published: 4/14/2022

Updated: 5/17/2022

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24767

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Temporal Vector: 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, SMB/Registry/Enumerated

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-43877, CVE-2022-24513, CVE-2022-24765, CVE-2022-24767

IAVA: 2022-A-0142-S