CVE-2018-0596 describes an untrusted search path vulnerability within the installer for Microsoft Visual Studio Community. This flaw allows an attacker to achieve privilege escalation by introducing a malicious DLL into an unspecified directory, which the installer then loads. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), the vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) but can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). While the risk score is 66/100, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_community:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.