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CVE-2019-1425
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Visual Studio fails to properly validate hardlinks while extracting archived files,…
Medium6.5EPSS 3.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microsoft
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Visual Studio fails to properly validate hardlinks while extracting archived files, aka 'Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.3% · top 11% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- Elevation of Privilege
- CWE-59 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-59 and its CVEs
Affected products
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2017
- affected version 15.9
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2019
- affected 16.0
- affected 16.3
References (1)
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1425 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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