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Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (April 2023)

high Nessus Plugin ID 174163

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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:

 - .NET DLL Hijacking Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-28260)

 - Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-28262)

 - Visual Studio Information Disclosure Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-28263)

 - Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-28296)

 - Visual Studio Spoofing Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-28299)

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 15.9.54 for Visual Studio 2017
 - Update 16.11.26 for Visual Studio 2019
 - Update 17.0.21 for Visual Studio 2022
 - Update 17.2.15 for Visual Studio 2022
 - Update 17.4.7 for Visual Studio 2022
 - Update 17.5.4 for Visual Studio 2022

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0e749f95

http://www.nessus.org/u?92da7fb4

http://www.nessus.org/u?9f0b69ad

http://www.nessus.org/u?b9d71e26

http://www.nessus.org/u?5980d658

http://www.nessus.org/u?d3ad74f0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 174163

File Name: smb_nt_ms23_apr_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 4/12/2023

Updated: 4/8/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28296

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28260, CVE-2023-28262, CVE-2023-28263, CVE-2023-28296, CVE-2023-28299

IAVA: 2023-A-0184-S