Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (November 2024)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 210895

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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:

- A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted requests to a .NET vulnerable webapp or loading a specially crafted file into a vulnerable application. (CVE-2024-43498)
- The NrbfDecoder component in .NET 9 contains a denial of service vulnerability due to incorrect input validation. (CVE-2024-43499)

- Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Visual Studio C++ Redistributable Installer (CVE-2024-43590)

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 17.6.20 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.8.15 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.10.8 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.11.5 for Visual Studio 2022

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 210895

File Name: smb_nt_ms24_nov_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows : Microsoft Bulletins

Published: 11/13/2024

Updated: 11/15/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-49050

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-43498

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: 11/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-43498, CVE-2024-43499, CVE-2024-49044, CVE-2024-49049, CVE-2024-49050

IAVA: 2024-A-0726, 2024-A-0734

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