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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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?869ec9a2

http://www.nessus.org/u?cee079bc

http://www.nessus.org/u?2ab2536f

http://www.nessus.org/u?8d3ba2e5

http://www.nessus.org/u?1bb5de16

http://www.nessus.org/u?cc1b86f6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 200353

File Name: smb_nt_ms24_jun_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 6/11/2024

Updated: 10/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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: 6

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

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: 6/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2024

Reference Information

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

IAVA: 2024-A-0346-S