CVE-2020-0789

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 0.86 % · percentile 58 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2020-03-12
Updated: 2024-08-04
Assigner: microsoft
NVD status: Modified

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists when the Visual Studio Extension Installer Service improperly handles hard links, aka 'Visual Studio Extension Installer Service Denial of Service Vulnerability'.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 6.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-59

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2020-2276
GCVE · GCVE-0-2020-0789

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2020-AVI-137 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Microsoft · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 16.0 ≤ 16.4

Affected products

Product	Versions
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2019	affected 16.0
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 (includes 16.0 - 16.3)	affected unspecified

References

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0789

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD