CVE-2022-35827
Published: 09 August 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-35827 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 7.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2022-35827 is a remote code execution vulnerability in Visual Studio, published on 2022-08-09 with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 reflecting network attack vector, low attack complexity, no required privileges, and required user interaction. The weakness is tracked under NVD-CWE-noinfo and enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the flaw by convincing a target to interact with specially crafted content, resulting in full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the victim system.
The Microsoft Security Response Center advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-35827 provides official guidance on available patches and mitigation steps for the affected Visual Studio components.
The associated EPSS score reached a peak of 0.0953 after disclosure, indicating emerging exploitation interest that warrants renewed attention.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-38700
Vulnerability details
Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.