Vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio 2017

CVE-2019-1077

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Visual Studio updater service improperly handles file permissions, aka 'Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

EPSS: 0.006 (68.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 — versions version 15.9
Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 — versions 16.0, 16.1

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1077 (x_refsource_MISC)