Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2023-36042

CVE-2023-36042:
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2023-36042) was disclosed on November 14, 2023. The vulnerability affects multiple versions of Microsoft Visual Studio, including Visual Studio 2019 (versions from 16.0 up to 16.11.32) and Visual Studio 2022 (versions 17.2, 17.4, and 17.6) (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.5 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H. This indicates a local attack vector, low attack complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction needed, unchanged scope, no impact on confidentiality and integrity, but high impact on availability. The vulnerability is associated with CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) and CWE-122 (Heap-based Buffer Overflow) (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability primarily affects system availability, with a high impact rating for availability while having no direct impact on confidentiality or integrity. As a denial of service vulnerability, successful exploitation could potentially cause system disruption or unavailability of the affected Visual Studio installations (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Microsoft has released security updates to address this vulnerability. The fix is included in various Visual Studio updates and the January 9, 2024 cumulative update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8.1. Users are advised to update to the latest versions of affected software (Microsoft Support).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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