7.8highHigh

CVE-2021-26434

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Exploitation status

  • A vendor advisory or patch reference has been published.

What the metrics mean

  • It is requires local access to the machine.
  • For an attacker who can reach it, no special conditions are needed to exploit it.
  • To exploit it, an ordinary user account is needed.
  • Beyond that, no action by a user is required.

Scoring

CVSS
7.8 (v3.1)
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-732
Assigned by
secure@microsoft.com

Dates

Published
2021-09-15
Last modified
2026-08-10
Sources
NVD

Affected products

  • Microsoft Visual Studio 201715.0 - 15.9
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 201916.0 - 16.11

As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.

References