CVE-2018-0952

Visual Studio 2015 vulnerability

CVSS

7.8

EPSS

6.2%

EPSS pct

93th

Exploited

No known

An Elevation of Privilege vulnerability exists when Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector allows file creation in arbitrary locations, aka "Diagnostic Hub Standard Collector Elevation Of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2016, Windows 10, Microsoft Visual Studio, Windows 10 Servers.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Visual Studio 2015

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Published

2018-08-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 6.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-0952.
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