Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability
Released: May 14, 2024
Last updated: May 15, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- Microsoft
- CVE.org link
- CVE-2024-30046
- Impact
- Denial of Service
- Max Severity
- Important
- Weakness
- CVSS Source
- Microsoft
- Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
- Metrics
- CVSS:3.1 5.9 / 5.2Base score metrics: 5.9 / Temporal score metrics: 5.2
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Exploit Code Maturity
Unproven
Remediation Level
Official Fix
Report Confidence
Confirmed
Please see Common Vulnerability Scoring System for more information on the definition of these metrics.
Exploitability
The following table provides an exploitability assessment for this vulnerability at the time of original publication.
- Publicly disclosed
- Yes
- Exploited
- No
- Exploitability assessment
- Exploitation Less Likely
FAQ
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to invest time in repeated exploitation attempts through sending constant or intermittent data.
Acknowledgements
Security Updates
To determine the support lifecycle for your software, see the Microsoft Support Lifecycle.
- 17.8.10
- 17.6.15
- 17.4.19
- 17.9.7
Disclaimer
Revisions
The following corrctions have been made: 1) Revised the Security Updates table to include .NET 7.0 and .NET 8.0 because these versions of .NET are affected by this vulnerability. Microsoft recommends that customers install the updates to be fully protected from the vulnerability. 2) Updated title to include .NET. This is an informational change only.
Information published.