CVE-2022-24512: .NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Overview

Severity

Medium (CVSS 6.3)

CVSS Vector

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

Category

Remote Code Execution

Exploit Status

Not Exploited

Exploitation Likelihood

Less Likely

Publicly Disclosed

Yes

Patch Tuesday

2022-Mar

Released

2022-03-08

Last Updated

2023-04-14

EPSS Score

0.23% (percentile: 46.3%)

FAQ

According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to minor loss of confidentiality (C:L), integrity (I:L) and availability (A:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability? While we cannot rule out the impact to Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability, the ability to exploit this vulnerability by itself is limited. An attacker would need to combine this with other vulnerabilities to perform an attack. According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do? Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that a user trigger the payload in the application. According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability? Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to chain other vulnerabilities in order to successfully gain unauthorized access to the target environment.

Affected Products (10)

Developer Tools

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 (includes 16.0 – 16.6)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 (includes 16.0 - 16.8)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0
• .NET 5.0
• .NET 6.0
• .NET Core 3.1
• PowerShell 7.2
• PowerShell 7.0
• PowerShell 7.1

Security Updates (8)

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Revision History

• 2022-03-08: Information published.
• 2022-03-08: Corrected Article links in the Security Updates table. This is an informational change only.
• 2022-03-16: Revised the Security Updates table to include PowerShell 7.0, PowerShell 7.1, and PowerShell 7.2 because these versions of PowerShell 7 are affected by this vulnerability. See https://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/issues/29 for more information.
• 2023-04-14: Added FAQ information. This is an informational change only.