KLA20005 Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Developer Tools

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Microsoft Developer Tools. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code, gain privileges, obtain sensitive information.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. A remote code execution vulnerability in Visual Studio Code can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code.
2. An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Visual Studio Code can be exploited remotely to gain privileges.
3. An elevation of privilege vulnerability in NuGet Client can be exploited remotely to gain privileges.
4. An information disclosure vulnerability in Visual Studio Code can be exploited remotely to obtain sensitive information.

Original advisories

CVE-2022-41034

CVE-2022-41083

CVE-2022-41032

CVE-2022-41042

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Malware exists for this vulnerability. Usually such malware is classified as Exploit. More details.

Related products

Microsoft-Visual-Studio

CVE list

CVE-2022-41034 critical

CVE-2022-41083 critical

CVE-2022-41032 critical

CVE-2022-41042 high

KB list

5019351

5019349

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.

• OSI

Obtain sensitive information. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to capturing by abuser information, critical for user or system.

• 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 17.0Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3Visual Studio CodeJupyter Extension for Visual Studio CodeMicrosoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10).NET Core 3.1Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2.NET 6.0Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 (includes 16.0 - 16.8)