CVE-2021-27064 (GCVE-0-2021-27064)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-13 19:32 – Updated: 2025-08-15 14:51
VLAI
Title
Visual Studio Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Summary
Visual Studio Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-15 14:51 UTC
CWE
  • Elevation of Privilege
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8) Affected: 15.9.0 , < publication (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2017:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 (includes 16.0 - 16.3) Affected: 16.0 , < publication (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 (includes 16.0 – 16.6) Affected: 16.0.0 , < publication (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 (includes 16.0 - 16.8) Affected: 15.0.0 , < publication (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019:16.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Date Public
2021-04-13 07:00
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        "dateUpdated": "2025-08-15T14:51:44.636Z",
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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