Visual Studio Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do? Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that a local user executes the Visual Studio installer
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability? Any authenticated attacker could trigger this vulnerability. It does not require admin or other elevated privileges.
🎯 Affected products5
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8
✅ Remediation
KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 15.9.70 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 16.11.44 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.8.18 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.10.11 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.12.5
🔗 References (9)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21206
- patchhttp://aka.ms/vs/15/release/latest
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.11
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8
- referencehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12