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CVE-2021-42319:
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Overview
Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2021-42319) was disclosed in November 2021 as part of Microsoft's monthly security updates. The vulnerability affects multiple versions of Microsoft Visual Studio, including Visual Studio 2019 versions 16.11, 16.9, 16.7, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9, and Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (Qualys Alert).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio. Microsoft assigned it a CVSS base score of 7.5 with a temporal score of 5.5, indicating a significant security risk (Qualys Alert).
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow attackers to perform Elevation of Privilege attacks on affected systems running vulnerable versions of Visual Studio (Qualys Alert).
Mitigation and workarounds
Microsoft released security updates to address this vulnerability as part of their November 2021 Patch Tuesday updates. Users are advised to update their Visual Studio installations to the latest version to protect against this vulnerability (Qualys Alert).
Additional resources
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