CVE-2018-0596: High severity visual studio community 2022 vulnerability

Published Jun 26, 2018

Updated

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer of Visual Studio Community allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

Affected Software

1 affected component

Microsoft Visual Studio Community

Event History

Jun 26, 2018

CVE Published

via MITRE·02:00 PM

Data Sourced

via MITRE·02:00 PM

DescriptionWeakness

Frequently Asked Questions

What access does an attacker need to exploit this issue?

The attack vector is local and requires user interaction. An attacker would need to use a Trojan horse DLL placed in an unspecified directory that the installer searches.

Is an installation that does not run the Visual Studio Community installer directly exposed?

The affected component identified is the Visual Studio Community installer. The provided information does not identify exposure outside of use of that installer.

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