Microsoft CVE-2020-1147: .NET Framework, SharePoint Server, and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in .NET Framework, Microsoft SharePoint, and Visual Studio when the software fails to check the source markup of XML file input. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the process responsible for deserialization of the XML content.
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker could upload a specially crafted document to a server utilizing an affected product to process content.
The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how .NET Framework, Microsoft SharePoint, and Visual Studio validates the source markup of XML content.