Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (February 2023)

high Nessus Plugin ID 171443

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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 this to bypass authentication and execute unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2023-21808, CVE-2023-21815, CVE-2023-23381)

- An elevation of privilege vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to gain elevated privileges.
(CVE-2023-21566)

- A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to cause the affected component to deny system or application services. (CVE-2023-21567)

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 15.9.52 for Visual Studio 2017
- Update 16.11.24 for Visual Studio 2019
- Update 17.0.19 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.2.13 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.4.5 for Visual Studio 2022

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 171443

File Name: smb_nt_ms23_feb_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows : Microsoft Bulletins

Published: 2/14/2023

Updated: 4/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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-2023-21808

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-23381

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:visual_studio

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-21566, CVE-2023-21567, CVE-2023-21808, CVE-2023-21815, CVE-2023-23381

IAVA: 2023-A-0088-S

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