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CVE record · CVE-2019-1425

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Visual Studio fails to properly validate hardlinks while extracting archived files, aka 'Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.033 · 88th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: microsoft) at 12 Nov 2019, 18:53 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2017
  • affected version 15.9
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019
  • affected 16.0
  • affected 16.3
Identifiers
CVE-2019-1425
CNA
microsoft
Tags
Published
12 Nov 2019
Updated
4 Aug 2024

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.033, the 88th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 12 Nov 2019. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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