Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (July 2023)

high Nessus Plugin ID 178161

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 vulnerability exist in ASP.NET Core applications where account lockout maximum failed attempts may not be immediately updated, allowing an attacker to try more passwords. (CVE-2023-33170)

- A vulnerability exists in .NET applications where the diagnostic server can be exploited to achieve cross-session/cross-user elevation of privilege (EoP) and code execution. (CVE-2023-33127)

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 17.0.23 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.2.17 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.4.9 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.6.5 for Visual Studio 2022

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?74184403

http://www.nessus.org/u?2eaf3ccc

http://www.nessus.org/u?eb220552

http://www.nessus.org/u?6694e7b7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 178161

File Name: smb_nt_ms23_jul_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 7/11/2023

Updated: 8/11/2023

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: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-33170

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/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: 7/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-33127, CVE-2023-33170

IAVA: 2023-A-0343-S