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CVE-2023-36049

critical

.NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Vendor / product: Microsoft — .net framework

.NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
9.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2023-11-14 21:15
Modified: 2026-11-02 23:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-03 07:33 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

microsoft / .net_framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1
microsoft / .net ≥6.0.0 <6.0.25, ≥7.0.0 <7.0.14, 8.0.0
microsoft / visual_studio_2022 ≥17.2 <17.2.22, ≥17.4 <17.4.14, ≥17.6 <17.6.10, ≥17.7 <17.7.7

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 NVD-CWE-noinfo

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36049
Vendor advisory: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36049
Patch / mitigation: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36049
Patch / mitigation: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36049

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-03 07:33 UTC · record ↗

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