Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (June 2024)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 200353

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

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, SMB/Registry/Enumerated, installed_sw/Microsoft Visual Studio

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