Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2024-38081 | .NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Date: 2024-07
Affected: nuget/Microsoft.IO.Redist
Attack vector: path-traversal
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2024-38081
CWE: CWE-59
CVSS: 7.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

# Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2024-38081 | .NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability ## <a name="executive-summary"></a>Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET 6.0 . This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability. A Vulnerability exist in Visual Studio installer on Windows OS where an unprivileged user is allowed to manipulate the Visual Studio installation resulting in elevation of privilege. ## Announcement Announcement for this issue can be found at https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/313 ## <a name="mitigation-factors"></a>Mitigation factors Microsoft has not identified any mitigating factors for this vulnerability. ## <a name="affected-software"></a>Affected software * Any .NET 6.0 application running on .NET 6.0.31 or earlier. ## <a name="affected-packages"></a>Affected Packages The vulnerability affects any Microsoft .NET Core project if it uses any of affected packages versions listed below ### <a name=".NET 6"></a>.NET 6 Package name | Affected version | Patched version ------------ | ---------------- | ------------------------- [Microsoft.IO.Redist](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.IO.Redist) | >=4.6.0-preview.18571.3, <=6.0.0 | 6.0.1 ## Advisory FAQ ### <a name="how-affected"></a>How do I know if I am affected? If you have a runtime or SDK with a version listed,


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