PT-2018-8954 · Microsoft · Visual Studio Community

Takashi Yoshikawa · Published 2018-06-26 · Updated 2018-08-17 · CVE-2018-0596

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Visual Studio Community (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to an untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer. This could allow an attacker to gain privileges by using a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Untrusted Search Path

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-426

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-0596

Affected Products

Visual Studio Community

References · 4

• https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2018/04/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0596 · Security Note
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN91151862/index.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/104563 · Note