Medium severity · published Dec 10, 2019
CVE-2019-1486
A spoofing vulnerability exists in Visual Studio Live Share when a guest connected to a Live Share session is redirected to an arbitrary URL specified by the session host, aka…
6.1
CVSS
1.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A spoofing vulnerability exists in Visual Studio Live Share when a guest connected to a Live Share session is redirected to an arbitrary URL specified by the session host, aka 'Visual Studio Live Share Spoofing Vulnerability'.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.6% · higher than 75% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
VS
Visual Studio 2019 · Microsoft
16.0 through 16.4 · source: NVD
VS
Visual Studio Live Share · Microsoft
before 1.0.1374 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1486
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-1486
Patch
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1486
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