CVE-2024-30045: .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

Patch Tuesday

2024-May

Released

2024-05-14

Last Updated

2024-06-19

EPSS Score

0.32% (percentile: 55.5%)

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.

Affected Products (7)

Developer Tools

• .NET 8.0
• .NET 7.0
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.9
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8
• PowerShell 7.4

Security Updates (7)

• 5038352
• 5038351
• Release Notes
• Release Notes
• Release Notes
• Release Notes
• Release Notes

Revision History

• 2024-05-14: Information published.
• 2024-06-19: Revised the Security Updates table to include PowerShell 7.4 because this version of PowerShell 7 is affected by this vulnerability. See https://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/issues/77 for more information.