CVE-2020-0900 — An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Visual Studio Extension

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Visual Studio Extension Installer Service improperly handles file operations, aka 'Visual Studio Extension Installer Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

01What is this vulnerability?

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Visual Studio Extension Installer Service improperly handles file operations, aka 'Visual Studio Extension Installer Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Microsoft	Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5	unspecified
Microsoft	Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.1	15.8) — unspecified
Microsoft	Microsoft Visual Studio 2019	16.0
Microsoft	Microsoft Visual Studio	2015 Update 3
Microsoft	Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 (includes 16.0	16.3) — unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-04-15T15:12:44.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T06:18:03.628Z

09References

• portal.msrc.microsoft.com — https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0900