Microsoft security update for CVE-2020-0900 — Microsoft Visual Studio
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products5
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.0
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 (includes 16.0 - 16.3)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | — |
| — | Security Update | — |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2020-0900
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.5 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Visual Studio Extension Installer Service improperly handles file operations, aka 'Visual Studio Extension Installer Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2020-0900, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).