CVE-2019-1425 - 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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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'

Published Nov 12, 2019

6.5

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 3.34%

Description

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'.

Affected products

Vendor Microsoft Product Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Default
unknown
Affected
- version 15.9
Vendor Microsoft Product Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Default
unknown
Affected
- 16.0
- 16.3

Default status is the baseline for the product. Each version can override it (patched versions can be marked unaffected).

Vendor	Product	Default status	Versions
Microsoft	Microsoft Visual Studio 2017	unknown	Affected version 15.9
Microsoft	Microsoft Visual Studio 2019	unknown	Affected 16.0 16.3

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-59

References (2)

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-9982
Advisory
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1425
x_refsource_MISCPatchVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-9982		Advisory
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1425		x_refsource_MISCPatchVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner microsoft

Published Nov 12, 2019

Updated Aug 4, 2024

Reserved Nov 26, 2018

Link CVE-2019-1425

CISA Vulnrichment

No data

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2019-1425

Red Hat

No data

ENISA EUVD

Assigner microsoft

Published Nov 12, 2019

Updated Aug 4, 2024

Link EUVD-2019-9982

GitHub

No data