CVE-2025-24998

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Mar 11, 2025
Updated: Feb 13, 2026
Reserved: Jan 30, 2025

Description

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

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.3 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft

Weaknesses

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)Microsoft	15.9.0 to before 15.9.71Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10)Microsoft	16.11.0 to before 16.11.45Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10Microsoft	17.10.0 to before 17.10.12Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12Microsoft	17.12.0 to before 17.12.6Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.13Microsoft	17.13.0 to before 17.13.3Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8Microsoft	17.8.0 to before 17.8.19Affected

References

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityvendor-advisorypatch

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