Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (August 2023)

high Nessus Plugin ID 179645

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 Core and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-38178)

- .NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-35390)

- .NET and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-38180)

- ASP.NET Core SignalR and Visual Studio Information Disclosure Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-35391)

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 17.2.18 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.4.10 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.6.6 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.7 for Visual Studio 2022

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9a7fd065

http://www.nessus.org/u?03c492a3

http://www.nessus.org/u?ee0cd3a3

http://www.nessus.org/u?f36add8d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 179645

File Name: smb_nt_ms23_aug_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 8/10/2023

Updated: 9/15/2023

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: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-35391

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-35390

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: 8/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 8/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-35390, CVE-2023-35391, CVE-2023-38178, CVE-2023-38180

IAVA: 2023-A-0404-S, 2023-A-0406-S, 2023-A-0415-S