All the vulnerabilites related to Microsoft - The installer of Visual Studio Community
cve-2018-0596
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-06-26 14:00
Modified
2024-08-05 03:28
Severity ?
Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer of Visual Studio Community allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.
Impacted products
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