Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (June 2022)

high Nessus Plugin ID 162317

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)

- An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Visual Studio. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to disclose potentially sensitive information. (CVE-2022-30184)

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 15.9.49 for Visual Studio 2017
- Update 16.9.22 for Visual Studio 2019
- Update 16.11.16 for Visual Studio 2019
- Update 17.0.11 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.2.4 for Visual Studio 2022

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4dc578a2

http://www.nessus.org/u?78cfb1be

http://www.nessus.org/u?2b4266e8

http://www.nessus.org/u?c9a8e5ce

http://www.nessus.org/u?01c6c181

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 162317

File Name: smb_nt_ms22_jun_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 6/16/2022

Updated: 10/20/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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, installed_sw/Microsoft Visual Studio, SMB/Registry/Enumerated

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/14/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24513, CVE-2022-30184

IAVA: 2022-A-0243-S