Memory leak in Visual Studio - CVE-2026-114154
Published: November 11, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU164968
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-114154
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability exists due to missing release of memory after its effective lifetime in ASP.NET Core when handling network requests. A remote attacker can send requests that trigger memory leaks to exhaust available memory and cause a denial of service.
Affected software
Visual Studio
How to mitigate CVE-2026-114154
Install security update from vendor's website.
Visual Studio - update to 17.14.45