CVE-2025-49739

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Jul 8, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Jun 9, 2025

Description

Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Visual Studio allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	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

Weaknesses

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3Microsoft	14.0.0 to before 14.0.27564.0Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)Microsoft	15.9.0 to before 15.9.75Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10)Microsoft	16.11.0 to before 16.11.49Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10Microsoft	17.10.0 to before 17.10.17Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12Microsoft	17.12.0 to before 17.12.10Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14Microsoft	17.14.0 to before 17.14.8Affected
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8Microsoft	17.8.0 to before 17.8.23Affected

References

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityvendor-advisorypatch

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