Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (June 2024)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 200353

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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. They are, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including:

- An elevation of privilege vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to gain elevated privileges.
(CVE-2024-29060, CVE-2024-29187)

- A remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to bypass authentication and execute unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2024-30052)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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 15.9.63 for Visual Studio 2017
- Update 16.11.37 for Visual Studio 2019
- Update 17.4.20 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.6.16 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.8.11 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.10.2 for Visual Studio 2022

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 200353

File Name: smb_nt_ms24_jun_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows : Microsoft Bulletins

Published: 6/11/2024

Updated: 6/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-29060

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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: 6/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-29060, CVE-2024-29187, CVE-2024-30052

IAVA: 2024-A-0346

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