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Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (June 2022)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 162317

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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)

 - 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: Medium

ID: 162317

File Name: smb_nt_ms22_jun_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 6/16/2022

Updated: 11/26/2024

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: 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: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-30184

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