KLA49157 Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Developer Tools

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

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. An elevation of privilege vulnerability in SysInternals Sysmon for Windows can be exploited remotely to gain privileges.
2. An information disclosure vulnerability in Visual Studio Code can be exploited remotely to obtain sensitive information.

Original advisories

CVE-2023-29343

CVE-2023-29338

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

Microsoft-Windows

CVE list

CVE-2023-29343 critical

CVE-2023-29338 high

KB list

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

• 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.

• SUI

Spoof user interface. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to changes in user interface to beguile user into inaccurate behavior.

Affected Products

• Visual Studio CodeWindows Sysmon