PT-2018-8955 · Microsoft · Visual Studio Code

Published 2018-06-26 · Updated 2018-11-23 · CVE-2018-0597

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

Description The issue is related to an untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer, which 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-2018-0597

Affected Products

Visual Studio Code

References · 5

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-0597 · Vendor Advisory
• https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2018/04/04/triaging-a-dll-planting-vulnerability · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0597 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/104563 · Note
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN91151862/index.html · Note