Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Affects Visual Studio

CVE-2024-20656
7.8HIGH

Key Information

Vendor
Microsoft
Status
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.2
Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.4
Vendor
CVE Published:
9 January 2024

Badges

😄 Trended👾 Exploit Exists🔴 Public PoC📰 News Worthy

Summary

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Affected Version(s)

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8) < 15.9.59

Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2 < 17.2.23

Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10) < 16.11.33

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

CVE-2024-20656
Created by Wh04m1001

News Articles

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CVE-2024-20656 - Local Privilege Escalation in the VSStandardCollectorService150 Service - MDSec

Overview Visual Studio is a complex and powerful IDE developed by Microsoft and comes with a lot of features that can be interesting from a red team perspective. During this blog post we will explore the...

10 months ago

EPSS Score

1% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • 👾

    Exploit exists.

  • Vulnerability started trending.

  • First article discovered by MDSec

  • Vulnerability published.

  • Vulnerability Reserved.

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre DatabaseMicrosoft Feed1 Proof of Concept(s)1 News Article(s)
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