Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio - CVE-2019-0537ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:50165 | Date: (C)2019-01-11 (M)2022-12-20 |
Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: windows |
An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Visual Studio improperly discloses arbitrary file contents if the victim opens a malicious .vscontent file. An attacker who took advantage of this information disclosure could view arbitrary file contents from the computer where the victim launched Visual Studio.To take advantage of the vulnerability, an attacker would need to trick a user into opening a malicious .vscontent file using a vulnerable version of Visual Studio. An attacker would have no way to force a developer to produce this information disclosure.The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Visual Studio loads .vscontent files.
Platform: |
Microsoft Windows 7 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 |
Microsoft Windows Vista |
Microsoft Windows XP |
Microsoft Windows 8.1 |
Microsoft Windows 10 |
Microsoft Windows 8 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 |
Product: |
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 |
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 |