Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (August 2023)

high Nessus Plugin ID 179645

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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 Core and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-38178)

- .NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-35390)

- .NET and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-38180)

- ASP.NET Core SignalR and Visual Studio Information Disclosure Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-35391)

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 17.2.18 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.4.10 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.6.6 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.7 for Visual Studio 2022

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 179645

File Name: smb_nt_ms23_aug_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows : Microsoft Bulletins

Published: 8/10/2023

Updated: 9/15/2023

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-35391

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-35390

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: 8/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 8/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-35390, CVE-2023-35391, CVE-2023-38178, CVE-2023-38180

IAVA: 2023-A-0404-S, 2023-A-0406-S, 2023-A-0415-S

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