KLA68912 Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Developer Tools

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Microsoft Developer Tools. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to gain privileges, execute arbitrary code.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Visual Studio can be exploited remotely to gain privileges.
2. A remote code execution vulnerability in Visual Studio can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code.
3. An elevation of privilege vulnerability in WiX toolset can be exploited to gain privileges.

Original advisories

CVE-2024-29060

CVE-2024-30052

CVE-2024-29187

Related products

Microsoft-Visual-Studio

CVE list

CVE-2024-29187 high

CVE-2024-29060 high

CVE-2024-30052 warning

Solution

Install necessary updates from the KB section, that are listed in your Windows Update (Windows Update usually can be accessed from the Control Panel)

Impacts

• ACE

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.

• PE

Privilege escalation. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing by abuser actions, which are normally disallowed for current role.

Affected Products

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10)Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)