CVE-2019-1425 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 and 2019. It arises when Visual Studio improperly validates hardlinks during archived file extraction. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (MEDIUM), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and could lead to high integrity impact (I:H) if exploited. While no public exploit code or active exploitation is confirmed, it has received some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
15.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2017:15.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
16.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019:16.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
16.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019:16.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.