April 13th, 2021

April patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server

Gloridel Morales
Senior Technical Program Manager

This month, we are releasing fixes for security vulnerabilities that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server, as well as the following older Team Foundation Server releases: TFS 2017 and TFS 2018.

The following vulnerability and bug will be fixed with this patch:

  • CVE-2021-27067: Information disclosure

  • CVE-2021-28459: Spoofing vulnerability

  • Resolve the issue reported in this Developer Community feedback ticket | New Test Case button not working. The fix for this issue was applied to Azure DevOps Server 2020 and 2020.0.1 with the February patch. With this patch we are fixing this issue for Azure DevOps Server 2019.1.1.

Azure DevOps Server 2020.0.1 Patch 2

To implement fixes for this patch you will have to follow steps to install Azure DevOps Server 2020.0.1 Patch 2. In addition, you will have to install the AzureResourceGroupDeploymentV2 and AzureResourceGroupDeploymentV3 tasks. Please see the release notes for installation instructions.

Azure DevOps Server 2020

If you have Azure DevOps Server 2020, you should first update to Azure DevOps Server 2020.0.1. Once on 2020.0.1, install Azure DevOps Server 2020.0.1 Patch 2. In addition, you will have to install the AzureResourceGroupDeploymentV2 and AzureResourceGroupDeploymentV3 tasks. Please see the release notes for installation instructions.

Azure DevOps Server 2019.1.1 Patch 8

To apply Patch 8 you will have to install Azure DevOps Server 2019.1.1 Patch 8 and AzureResourceGroupDeploymentV2 task. Please see the release notes for task installation instructions.

Azure DevOps Server 2019.0.1 Patch 10

To apply Patch 10 you will have to install the AzureResourceGroupDeploymentV2 task. Please see the release notes for task installation instructions.

TFS 2018 Update 3.2 Patch 15

To apply Patch 15 you will have to install the AzureResourceGroupDeploymentV2 task. Please see the release notes for task installation instructions.

TFS 2018 Update 1.2 Patch 10

To apply Patch 10 you will have to install the AzureResourceGroupDeployment task. Please see the release notes for task installation instructions.

TFS 2017 Update 3.1 Patch 13

To apply Patch 13 you will have to install the AzureResourceGroupDeployment task. Please see the release notes for task installation instructions.

Author

Gloridel Morales
Senior Technical Program Manager

Gloridel is a Senior Technical Program Manager on the Azure DevOps team.

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  • Tore Østergaard Jensen (TORE) · Edited

    Hi

    The above section about Azure DevOps Server 2020.0.1 Patch 2 mentions the following two tasks:
    AzureResourceGroupDeploymentV2
    AzureResourceGroupDeploymentV3

    Whereas the release notes for the same mentions:
    AzureResourceGroupDeploymentV2
    AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeploymentV3

    I guess that the release notes are correct, right?

    Do I even need to install them if I do not need them? I am primarily installing the patch to fix the build retention. Then I would just get them when eventually upgrading to 2020.1 or a later version.

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  • Jens Kunze

    Is there a possibility to install the new versions for AzureResourceGroupDeploymentV2 and AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeploymentV3 on a server level?
    Because I needed to do the "tfx build task upload" for all of my collections. Otherwise a collection would still display old version.

    And what about, when I create new collections? Will the old versions of the tasks be used?

    Or do I have to use a special service url? Uploading worked only with "https://devopsserver/{CollectionName}"and not with "https://devopsserver/" as Service-URL.

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  • Joshua Martin

    Good Afternoon.
    I ran Azure DevOps Server 2019.1.1 Patch 8 and rebooted, then I did a verify with Run devops2019.1.1patch8.exe CheckInstall and my version shows up as 17.153.31010.1. Your updated shows a new version 17.153.31129.2. I am not sure how to get my server to that version. What am I missing. My install says successful. What am I missing?

    Thank you
    Joshua

    • Joshua Martin · Edited

      I found the issue, it is a patch 8 linking issue
      Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1.1 Patch 8 Release Date: April 13, 2021
      We have released a patch for Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1.1 that fixes the following. - This patch link leads to https://aka.ms/azdev2019.1.1patch8. - version 17.153.31129.2

      CVE-2021-27067: Information disclosure
      Resolve the issue reported in this Developer Community feedback ticket | Unable to register test result iteration details on Azure DevOps Server...

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      • shadab ali khan

        Hi Joshua,
        one question will the version 17.153.31010.1 be updated on the Azure Devops Console after installing?.
        Currently it has not updated.Can you please comment on this

        Shadab

  • Bayron Carranza

    Dear gabriela, i have a question: when is avalaible: git clone auditing in Azure Devops? It is necesary for us , because this is a company policy, help me please.

    Thank you!!
    Bayron

  • Christian Hanna

    Hi,
    in the release notes you wrote:

    Option 2: Check the version of the following file: [INSTALL_DIR]\Azure DevOps Server 2019\Application Tier\Web Services\bin\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Feed.Server.dll. Azure DevOps Server 2019 is installed to c:\Program Files\Azure DevOps Server 2019 by default. After installing Azure DevOps Server 2019.1.1 Patch 8, the version will be 17.153.31010.1.

    Actually it's a different version. After installing Patch 8 the version of the dll is 17.153.31129.2

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    • Gloridel MoralesMicrosoft employee Author

      Hi Christian, thanks for pointing this out. I have updated the release notes with the correct file version (17.153.31129.2).

  • gaoshal · Edited

    Is there an off line patch 15 for TFS 2018 3.2?
    When click on the patch it takes me to patch 14.

  • William Charlton

    I just did a direct/in-place upgrade of Azure DevOps Server 2019 (patch7) to ADS 2020, then I installed ADS 2020 Patch 1, 2, and 3.

    Do I need to worry about any of the patches related to ADS 2020.0.1?

    • Gloridel MoralesMicrosoft employee Author

      Hi William, to have fixes for this security patches you should first update to Azure DevOps Server 2020.0.1 and then install Patch 2. So far, we have released only 2 patches for Azure DevOps Server 2020.0.1.

  • Tore Østergaard Jensen (TORE)

    Hi Gloridel

    I was told that the following issue would be fixed the the April patch, but cannot see it from the release notes:
    https://developercommunity2.visualstudio.com/t/Azure-DevOps-Server-2020-Retention-Polic/1306205

    Is is possible to install Azure DevOps Server 2020.0.1 Patch 2 directly on top of Azure DevOps Server 2020.0.1 RC? I aim for installing 2020.1 when released, but would be good to know in case that plan fails.

  • Scott Robertson

    Regarding TFS 2017 Update 3.1 Patch 13 - can you answer the below?

    The release notes don't cover the above detail.
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/tfs2017-update3#-release-date-april-13-2021

    Many thanks.

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    • Ashwin SangemMicrosoft employee

      Hi Scott,
      Please find my answers below:
      1. You can check from the TFX command logs for any failures. In addition, the task version for this fix is 2.1.5, so after installation, the task should show this version in the logs(it would be showing an older version before installation).
      2. You can download the current task version at anytime, the URL for that is /_apis/distributedtask/tasks/94A74903-F93F-4075-884F-DC11F34058B4/ . There is no change in the task except...

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      • Christian Hanna

        Hi Ashwin,

        could you provide the new task versions for every TFS version?
        e.g. I just updated the Task on a TFS 2018 Update 3.2 Patch 15 and the command tfx build tasks list still shows version 2.131.3

        Thx,
        Christian

      • Divanshu AggarwalMicrosoft employee · Edited

        TFS 2018.3.2 Patch 15 : 2.131.8
        Azure DevOps Server 2019.0.1 Patch 10 : 2.141.5
        Azure DevOps Server 2019.1.1 Patch 9: 2.152.5
        TFS 2017.3.1 Patch 13 : 2.1.5
        TFS 2018.1.2 Patch 10 : 2.2.9
        Azure DevOps Server 2020 Patch 4 (AzureResourceGroupDeploymentV2 ) :2.170.1
        Azure DevOps Server 2020 Patch 4 (AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeploymentV3):3.2.9

      • Divanshu AggarwalMicrosoft employee

        Christian,
        Could you also share the message you got when you tried command “tfx build tasks upload” on 2018 update 3.2 patch 15.
        Also could you try triggering any pipeline which uses this task and verify version there too.