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CVE-2023-36042 — Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability

Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVSS

6.2 MEDIUM

EPSS

0.10% (top 71.70%)

CWE

CWE-122

Published

2023-11-14T17:57:31.934Z

Last modified

2025-10-08T23:59:55.996Z

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

01What is this vulnerability?

Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability

Vendor	Product	Versions
Microsoft	Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6	17.6.0
Microsoft	Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7	17.7.0
Microsoft	Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.8.1	4.8.1

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

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.

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

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

msrc.microsoft.com — https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36042

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