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Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (March 2022)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 158715

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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 denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to cause the affected component to deny system or application services. (CVE-2022-24464)

 - A remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to bypass authentication and execute unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2020-8927, CVE-2022-24512)

 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 16.7.26 for Visual Studio 2019
 - Update 16.9.18 for Visual Studio 2019
 - Update 16.11.11 for Visual Studio 2019
 - Update 17.1.1 for Visual Studio 2022

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?96707195

http://www.nessus.org/u?cb3a560d

http://www.nessus.org/u?b54be023

http://www.nessus.org/u?dae83367

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 158715

File Name: smb_nt_ms22_mar_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 3/8/2022

Updated: 4/18/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24512

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8927

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:visual_studio

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8927, CVE-2022-24464, CVE-2022-24512

IAVA: 2022-A-0105-S