CVE-2018-8599

HIGH 7.8CVE-2018-8599 · Published 12/12/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-8599 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting visual studio (microsoft), visual studio 2017 (microsoft).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.00%, higher than 62.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
visual studio microsoft	`= 2015`	No fix yet
visual studio 2017 microsoft	`= 15.9`	No fix yet

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service improperly impersonates certain file operations, aka "Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft Visual Studio, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows 10, Windows 10 Servers.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/106094 · Third Party Advisory
portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8599 · Patch

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

visual studio

microsoft

= 2015

No fix yet

visual studio 2017

microsoft

= 15.9

No fix yet

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