Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (May 2022)

high Nessus Plugin ID 161118

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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:

- An elevation of privilege vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2022-24513)

- Multiple denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to cause a DoS condition. (CVE-2022-29117, CVE-2022-23267, CVE-2022-29145)

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 16.9.21 for Visual Studio 2019
- Update 16.11.14 for Visual Studio 2019
- Update 17.0.10 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.1.7 for Visual Studio 2022

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 161118

File Name: smb_nt_ms22_may_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows : Microsoft Bulletins

Published: 5/12/2022

Updated: 10/27/2023

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24513

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

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: 5/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/10/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23267, CVE-2022-24513, CVE-2022-29117, CVE-2022-29145

IAVA: 2022-A-0198

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