CVE-2025-29804

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Apr 8, 2025
Updated: Aug 10, 2026
Reserved: Mar 11, 2025

Description

Improper access control 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-284 Improper Access Control

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10Microsoft	17.10.0 to before 17.10.13Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12Microsoft	17.12.0 to before 17.12.7Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.13Microsoft	17.13.0 to before 17.13.6Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8Microsoft	17.8.0 to before 17.8.20Affected

References

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityvendor-advisorypatch

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