CVE-2025-25003

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 7.3
EPSS
EPSS 0.46 % · percentile 39 (2026-10-27)
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.

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)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
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

References

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