.NET and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

A flaw in .NET and Visual Studio allows a local user to gain higher privileges on the system. An attacker who can run code on your computer could use this vulnerability to take control of it with administrator rights.

This elevation of privilege vulnerability in .NET and Visual Studio (CWE-1220) allows a local attacker to escalate privileges from a lower-privileged context to a higher-privileged one. The attack requires local code execution capability; exploitation results in unauthorized administrative access to the affected system.