Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-118147 — Microsoft Visual Studio
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products4
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2026 version 18.11
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 4 updates
4 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 | 18.11.3 |
| — | Security Update | 15.9.84 |
| — | Security Update | 16.11.62 |
| — | Security Update | 17.14.44 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-118147
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.4 HIGH
- 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
Improper certificate validation in Visual Studio allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-118147, 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).
🔗 References (9)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-118147
- patchhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2026/release-history
- referencehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2026/release-notes
- patchhttps://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/
- referencehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes-v15.9
- patchhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-history
- referencehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.11
- patchhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-history
- referencehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes