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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f159a580

http://www.nessus.org/u?70d5c904

http://www.nessus.org/u?1826d497

http://www.nessus.org/u?58508f72

http://www.nessus.org/u?33e8b7fa

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 167246

File Name: smb_nt_ms22_nov_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 11/10/2022

Updated: 12/15/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-41119

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: 11/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/8/2022

Reference Information

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

IAVA: 2022-A-0480-S