CVE-2020-0899 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 and 2019, stemming from improper file permission handling by the Visual Studio updater service. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), it requires local access and low privileges to exploit, potentially leading to high integrity impact but no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV listing. While community discussion and media coverage are minimal, the vulnerability was addressed in Microsoft's April 2020 Patch Tuesday.
| 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
16.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019:16.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
16.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019:16.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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