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.
The product attempts to access a file based on the filename, but it does not properly prevent that filename from identifying a link or shortcut that resolves to an unintended resource.
Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
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Visual_studio_2017 | Microsoft | 15.9 (including) | 15.9 (including) |
Visual_studio_2019 | Microsoft | 16.0 (including) | 16.0 (including) |
Visual_studio_2019 | Microsoft | 16.3 (including) | 16.3 (including) |