Vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio 2017

CVE-2019-1425

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Visual Studio fails to properly validate hardlinks while extracting archived files, aka 'Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

EPSS: 0.076 (92.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 — versions version 15.9
Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 — versions 16.0, 16.3

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1425 (x_refsource_MISC)