CVE-2023-36759 (GCVE-0-2023-36759)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-12 16:58 – Updated: 2025-10-30 18:17
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Summary
Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CWE
  • CWE-822 - Untrusted Pointer Dereference
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Vendor Product Version
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2 Affected: 17.2.0 , < 17.2.19 (custom)
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