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'.
problem types: Elevation of Privilege
affected:
{
product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017
vendor: Microsoft
versions:
status: affected, version: version 15.9
}
{
product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2019
vendor: Microsoft
versions:
status: affected, version: 16.0
status: affected, version: 16.3
}
