CVE-2020-1416

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'.

Score

CVSS 3.1 8.8 High

Status

Modified - secure@microsoft.com

Published

2020-07-14

Last modified

2024-08-04

Weaknesses

CWE-269

Affected products

• Azure Storage Explorer (Microsoft)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.9 Includes 15.0 - 15.8 (Microsoft)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 (Microsoft)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.4 Includes 16.0 - 16.3 (Microsoft)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.6 Includes 16.0 - 16.5 (Microsoft)
• Typescript (Microsoft)
• Visual Studio 2017 (Microsoft)
• Visual Studio 2019 (Microsoft)
• Visual Studio Code (Microsoft)

References

• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1416