Microsoft Visual Studio Spoofing Vulnerability

Security Vulnerability

Released: Mar 10, 2020

Assigning CNA
Microsoft
CVE.org link
CVE-2020-0884

Executive Summary

A spoofing vulnerability exists in Microsoft Visual Studio as it includes a reply URL that is not secured by SSL. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could compromise the access tokens, exposing security and privacy risks.

To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to monitor the network traffic between a client machine and server while the end user is developing an Outlook Web Add-in, and the client also has two-factor authentication enabled in Outlook.

The update addresses the vulnerability by securing the reply URL with HTTPS.

Exploitability

The following table provides an exploitability assessment for this vulnerability at the time of original publication.

Publicly disclosed
No
Exploited
No
Exploitability assessment
Exploitation Less Likely

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