.NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Released: Jul 9, 2024
Last updated: Aug 13, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- Microsoft
- CVE.org link
- CVE-2024-38081
- Impact
- Elevation of Privilege
- Max Severity
- Important
- Weakness
- CVSS Source
- Microsoft
- Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
- Metrics
- CVSS:3.1 7.3 / 6.4Base score metrics: 7.3 / Temporal score metrics: 6.4
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
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
- No
- Exploited
- No
- Exploitability assessment
- Exploitation Less Likely
FAQ
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that a local user executes the Visual Studio installer
According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
The attacker must have permissions to access the target domain environment to be able to exploit this vulnerability.
Acknowledgements
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Security Updates
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Disclaimer
Revisions
Corrected Article and Download entries in the Affected Products table. This is an informational change only.
In the Security Updates table, made the following corrections: 1) Added .NET 6.0 as it is affected by this vulnerability. 2) Removed .NET 8.0 as it is not affected by this vulnerability. 3) Corrected Download and Article links for .NET 3.5 and 4.7.2 installed on Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit Systems.
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