CVE-2018-0596: Microsoft Visual Studio Community

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer of Visual Studio Community allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

Affected products

  • Microsoft Visual Studio Community: affected versions not specified

Published 2018-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.