Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
The product obtains a value from an untrusted source, converts this value to a pointer, and dereferences the resulting pointer.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual_studio_2019 | Microsoft | 16.0 (including) | 16.11.30 (excluding) |
| Visual_studio_2022 | Microsoft | 17.2.0 (including) | 17.2.19 (excluding) |
| Visual_studio_2022 | Microsoft | 17.4.0 (including) | 17.4.11 (excluding) |
| Visual_studio_2022 | Microsoft | 17.6.0 (including) | 17.6.7 (excluding) |
| Visual_studio_2022 | Microsoft | 17.7.0 (including) | 17.7.4 (excluding) |
An attacker can supply a pointer for memory locations that the product is not expecting. If the pointer is dereferenced for a write operation, the attack might allow modification of critical state variables, cause a crash, or execute code. If the dereferencing operation is for a read, then the attack might allow reading of sensitive data, cause a crash, or set a variable to an unexpected value (since the value will be read from an unexpected memory location). There are several variants of this weakness, including but not necessarily limited to: