CVE-2020-1416: Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 5.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code when they load software dependencies, aka 'Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

Affected products

• Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft TypeScript: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017: from 15.0, before 15.9.25 (fixed in 15.9.25)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019: from 16.0, before 16.0.16 (fixed in 16.0.16); from 16.1, before 16.4.11 (fixed in 16.4.11); from 16.5, before 16.6.4 (fixed in 16.6.4)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Code: before 1.47.1 (fixed in 1.47.1)

Published 2020-07-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.