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CVE-2023-36758

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-36758 is a critical Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Visual Studio 2022. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to gain full control over a compromised system with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring no user interaction. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community. Organizations using Visual Studio 2022 should prioritize patching to mitigate this significant risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 17.7, <= 17.7.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2022:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0135 is in the 55th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7Fixed in: 17.7.4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2023-Sep/CVE-2023-36758Important

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Sep 12, 2023

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36758
PatchVendor Advisory