CVE-2012-0008
Published Mar 13, 2012
Last updated 6 years ago
Overview
- 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."
- Source
- secure@microsoft.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.9
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 3.4
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Evaluator
- Comment
- Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html 'CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path'
- Impact
- 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.'
- Solution
- 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.'
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:2008:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "9AB2C8C4-7E86-4736-9CE4-2E65E4EDBF02"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:2010:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "7613B7D7-CF12-4D8D-AEE1-6274C1D7BEF2"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:2010:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "4DD0F743-9881-4934-944A-982F994FC595"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]