CVE-2023-36759 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00326.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Microsoft	Visual Studio 2019 Visual Studio 2022

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-40702	Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36759

History

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 02:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:2022:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2022:17.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2022:17.4:::::::*
Vendors & Products	Microsoft visual Studio

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published: 2023-09-12T16:58:29.748Z

Updated: 2025-10-30T18:17:56.444Z

Reserved: 2023-06-27T15:11:59.867Z

Link: CVE-2023-36759

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-12T17:15:11.513

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:10:32.297

Link: CVE-2023-36759

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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