CVE-2025-29803

Visual Studio Tools for Applications and SQL Server Management Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Apr 12, 2025
Updated: Aug 10, 2026
Reserved: Mar 11, 2025

Description

Uncontrolled search path element in Visual Studio Tools for Applications and SQL Server Management 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
SQL Server Management Studio 20.2Microsoft	20.0 to before 20.2.37.0Affected
Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA)Microsoft	16.0 to before 16.0.35907.0Affected
Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA)Microsoft	17.0 to before 17.0.35906.0Affected
VSTA 2019 SDKMicrosoft	16.0 to before 16.0.35907.0Affected
VSTA 2022 SDKMicrosoft	17.0 to before 17.0.35906.0Affected

References

Visual Studio Tools for Applications and SQL Server Management Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityvendor-advisorypatch

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