CVE-2020-1133 Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

What is CVE-2020-1133?

CVE-2020-1133 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio, published on 11 Sep 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector improperly handles file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run processes in an elevated context.</p> <p>An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application on the victim system.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting the way the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector handles file operations.</p>

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-1133?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio 2017, Microsoft Visual Studio 2019, Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2019.

How do I fix CVE-2020-1133?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-1133 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-1133 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-1133 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-m38p-pr5f-vjjm.