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CVE-2019-1425

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-11-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

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'.

Affected products

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8): 15.9
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019: 16.0, 16.3
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8): version 15.9
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019: 16.0, 16.3

References

• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1425
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1425

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