Executive Summary

Summary
Title Vulnerability in Visual Studio Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2651019)
Informations
Name MS12-021 First vendor Publication 2012-03-13
Vendor Microsoft Last vendor Modification 2012-03-13
Severity (Vendor) Important Revision 1.0

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Revision Note: V1.0 (March 13, 2012): Bulletin published.

Summary: This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in Visual Studio. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker places a specially crafted add-in in the path used by Visual Studio and convinces a user with higher privileges to start Visual Studio. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users.

Original Source

Url : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-021

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15081
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15081
Title: Visual Studio Add-In Vulnerability
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."
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2012-0008
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows 7
 Product(s): Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-03-14 Name : Microsoft Visual Studio Privilege Elevation Vulnerability (2651019)
File : nvt/secpod_ms12-021.nasl

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2012-03-15 IAVM : 2012-A-0042 - Microsoft Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Severity : Category II - VMSKEY : V0031891

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Visual Studio .addin file access
RuleID : 21576 - Revision : 6 - Type : FILE-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-03-13 Name : The remote Windows host contains a development application that is affected b...
File : smb_nt_ms12-021.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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