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CVE record · CVE-2021-27068

Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVSS 8.8 HighCriticalEPSS 0.54 · 98th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 8.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.54 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: microsoft) at 11 May 2021, 19:11 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 2019 version 16.4 (includes 16.0 - 16.3)
  • affected 16.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 (includes 16.0 – 16.6)
  • affected 16.0.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 (includes 16.0 - 16.8)
  • affected 15.0.0 to before publication custom
Identifiers
CVE-2021-27068
CNA
microsoft
Tags
Published
11 May 2021
Updated
19 Nov 2024

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C CNA (microsoft)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.54, the 98th 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 11 May 2021. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.