CVE-2026-103572

Visual Studio Tools for Applications and SQL Server Management Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 8.8
EPSS: EPSS 0.99 % · percentile 62 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-10-13
Updated: 2026-10-28
Assigner: microsoft
NVD status: Undergoing Analysis

Description

Improper control of generation of code ('code injection') in Visual Studio Tools for Applications and SQL Server Management Studio allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-94

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-99027
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-103572

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-1316 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Microsoft · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected products

Product	Versions
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14	affected 17.14.0 < 17.14.42
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2026 version 18.10	affected 18.10.0 < 18.10.4

References

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-103572

Sources

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