Microsoft Windows Diagnostics Hub CVE-2020-1393 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service fails to properly sanitize input, leading to an unsecure library-loading behavior. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with elevated system privileges. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affected system and run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Windows Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service sanitizes input, to help preclude unintended elevated system privileges.

Affected Applications

Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 (includes 16.0 - 16.3)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3
Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.0
Windows Server version 2004 (Server Core installation)
Windows Server version 1903 (Server Core installation)
Windows Server 2016
Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 (includes 16.0 - 16.5)
Windows 10
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)
Windows Server version 1909 (Server Core installation)
Windows Server 2019

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