CVE-2020-0789: Microsoft Visual Studio 2019

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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'.

Affected products

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019: from 16.0, up to and including 16.4

Published 2020-03-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.