ID CVE-2012-0008
Summary Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1, 2010, and 2010 SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse add-in in an unspecified directory, aka "Visual Studio Add-In Vulnerability." Per: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-021 'An attacker could then place a specially crafted add-in in the path used by Visual Studio. When Visual Studio is started by an administrator, the specially crafted add-in would be loaded with the same privileges as the administrator.' 'The vulnerability could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users.' Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html 'CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path'
References
Vulnerable Configurations
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:2008:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:2008:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:2010:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:2010:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:2010:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:2010:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS
Base: 6.9 (as of 12-10-2018 - 22:01)
Impact:
Exploitability:
CWE NVD-CWE-Other
CAPEC
Access
VectorComplexityAuthentication
LOCAL MEDIUM NONE
Impact
ConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
COMPLETE COMPLETE COMPLETE
cvss-vector via4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
msbulletin via4
bulletin_id MS12-021
bulletin_url
date 2012-03-13T00:00:00
impact Elevation of Privilege
knowledgebase_id 2651019
knowledgebase_url
severity Important
title Vulnerability in Visual Studio Could Allow Elevation of Privilege
oval via4
accepted 2014-01-06T04:00:07.092-05:00
class vulnerability
contributors
  • name Josh Turpin
    organization Symantec Corporation
  • name Maria Kedovskaya
    organization ALTX-SOFT
definition_extensions
  • comment Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is installed
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6205
  • comment Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is installed
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7533
  • comment Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 is installed
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14969
description Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1, 2010, and 2010 SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse add-in in an unspecified directory, aka "Visual Studio Add-In Vulnerability."
family windows
id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15081
status accepted
submitted 2012-03-13T13:00:00
title Visual Studio Add-In Vulnerability
version 11
refmap via4
bid 52329
cert TA12-073A
sectrack 1026792
secunia 48396
xf ms-visual-studio-priv-esc(73537)
Last major update 12-10-2018 - 22:01
Published 13-03-2012 - 21:55
Last modified 12-10-2018 - 22:01
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