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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 17.7, <= 17.7.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2022:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.