Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (Nov 2022)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167246

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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:

- A remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker can exploit Heap Overflow vulnerbaility in Visual Studio to bypass authentication and execute unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2022-41119)

- An information disclosure vulnerability. Local clone optimization dereferences symbolic links by default and may cause an exposure of sensitive information to a malicious actor. (CVE-2022-39253)

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 15.9.51 for Visual Studio 2017
- Update 16.11.21 for Visual Studio 2019
- Update 17.0.16 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.2.10 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.4 for Visual Studio 2022

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 167246

File Name: smb_nt_ms22_nov_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows : Microsoft Bulletins

Published: 11/10/2022

Updated: 10/5/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-41119

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-39253, CVE-2022-41119

IAVA: 2022-A-0480-S

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