Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8))

CVE-2025-24998
HIGH 7.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.46 % · percentile 40 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Uncontrolled search path element in Visual Studio allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-427 — Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)affected 15.9.0 < 15.9.71
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10)affected 16.11.0 < 16.11.45
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10affected 17.10.0 < 17.10.12
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12affected 17.12.0 < 17.12.6
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.13affected 17.13.0 < 17.13.3
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8affected 17.8.0 < 17.8.19

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD