An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Visual... · CVE-2020-1416 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Visual...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 9, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code when they load software dependencies, aka 'Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database

Jul 14, 2020

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022

Last updated Mar 9, 2023

Severity

High

8.8

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H