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high 8.8

CVE-2020-1416 json

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code when they load software dependencies, aka 'Visual St…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-12292

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.9%
EPSS 5.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code when they load software dependencies, aka 'Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

Patch / fix

  • microsoft visual_studio_2017 15.9.25
  • microsoft visual_studio_2019 16.0.16, 16.4.11, 16.6.4
  • microsoft visual_studio_code 1.47.1

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Exploit prediction

5.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 (includes 16.0 - 16.5)
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Code
  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)
  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019
  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 (includes 16.0 - 16.3)
  • Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer
  • Microsoft TypeScript

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.