Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (April 2023)

high Nessus Plugin ID 174163

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:

- .NET DLL Hijacking Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-28260)

- Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-28262)

- Visual Studio Information Disclosure Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-28263)

- Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-28296)

- Visual Studio Spoofing Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-28299)

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 15.9.54 for Visual Studio 2017
- Update 16.11.26 for Visual Studio 2019
- Update 17.0.21 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.2.15 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.4.7 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.5.4 for Visual Studio 2022

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0e749f95

http://www.nessus.org/u?92da7fb4

http://www.nessus.org/u?9f0b69ad

http://www.nessus.org/u?b9d71e26

http://www.nessus.org/u?5980d658

http://www.nessus.org/u?d3ad74f0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 174163

File Name: smb_nt_ms23_apr_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 4/12/2023

Updated: 4/8/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28296

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: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28260, CVE-2023-28262, CVE-2023-28263, CVE-2023-28296, CVE-2023-28299

IAVA: 2023-A-0184-S