CVE-2019-1425

moderate-risk
Published 2019-11-12

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'.

Do I need to act?

~
7.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 6.5/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (3)

Affected Vendors

Microsoft

References (2)

Patch https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1425
Patch https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1425
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 10/34 · Low
Exposure 9/34 · Low