This vulnerability allows malicious actors to bypass a restriction that prevents users from entering information in the product name extension property of a .ZIP file by opening a Visual Studio Extension .
Dolev Taler discovered the bug discovered by Varonis.
Security researchers have warned about an easily exploitable flaw in the Microsoft Visual Studio installer that could be abused by a malicious actor to impersonate a legitimate publisher and distribute malicious extensions.
A threat actor could impersonate one of these publishers and issue a malicious extension to compromise a targeted system, dolev taler said.
The bug discovered involves a bug in the Visual Studio user interface.
It allows for spoofed publisher digital signatures.
Taler warns that threat actors could use this vulnerability to issue spoofed malicious extensions with the intention of compromising systems.
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