KLA19246 Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Developer Tools

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Microsoft Developer Tools. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to gain privileges, execute arbitrary code, cause denial of service.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Visual Studio Code can be exploited remotely to gain privileges.
2. A remote code execution vulnerability in .NET Framework can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code.
3. A denial of service vulnerability in .NET Core and Visual Studio can be exploited remotely to cause denial of service.

Original advisories

CVE-2022-38020

CVE-2022-26929

CVE-2022-38013

Related products

Microsoft-.NET-Framework

Microsoft-Visual-Studio

CVE list

CVE-2022-38020 high

CVE-2022-26929 critical

CVE-2022-38013 critical

KB list

5017327

5017500

5017497

5017915

5017903

5017501

5017499

Solution

Install necessary updates from the KB section, that are listed in your Windows Update (Windows Update usually can be accessed from the Control Panel)

Impacts

• ACE

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

• PE

Privilege escalation. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing by abuser actions, which are normally disallowed for current role.

Affected Products

• Visual Studio 2022 for Mac version 17.3Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.7.2Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10)Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6/4.6.1/4.6.2/4.7/4.7.1/4.7.2Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 2Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 (includes 16.0 - 16.8)Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.8.1.NET 6.0Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.6.2/4.7/4.7.1/4.7.2Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.NET Core 3.1Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8.1Visual Studio CodeMicrosoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.8Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2