CVE-2019-0727: Microsoft Visual Studio

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector or the Visual Studio Standard Collector allows file deletion in arbitrary locations.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system, aka 'Diagnostic Hub Standard Collector, Visual Studio Standard Collector Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

Affected products

• Microsoft Visual Studio: version 2015 only
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017: version 15.0 only; version 15.9 only
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019: version 16.0 only
• Microsoft Windows 10: affected versions not specified; version 1607 only; version 1703 only; version 1709 only; version 1803 only; version 1809 only; …
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016: affected versions not specified; version 1803 only; version 1903 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019: affected versions not specified

Published 2019-05-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.