6.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2019-1425

Published: 12/11/2019 Updated: 24/08/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.8 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 516
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

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'.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – November 2019
Symantec Threat Intelligence Blog • Ratheesh PM • 15 Nov 2024

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