CVE-2020-0789
A denial of service vulnerability exists when the Visual Studio Extension Installer Service...
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'.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
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'.
- Record
CVE-2020-0789- CVSS 3.1
- 7.1 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 6.6 Medium
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C - Weakness
- CWE-59
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
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'.
- Record
CVE-2020-0789- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2020-2276 No score
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'.
- Record
EUVD-2020-2276- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-9p8g-4m8r-qpv5 No score
A denial of service vulnerability exists when the Visual Studio Extension Installer Service...
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'.
- Record
GHSA-9p8g-4m8r-qpv5- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| facts | ||
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2020-0789 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.1) in Microsoft Visual Studio 2019, published March 12, 2020. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.86%, the 58th percentile. No source names a fixed version.