Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.
According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L), privileges are low (PR:L), and user interaction is required (UI:R). What is the target context of the remote code execution?
This attack requires an authenticated attacker to place a specially crafted .dll file in a local network location. When a victim runs this file, it loads the malicious DLL.
Security updates
17.13.3 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
15.9.71 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
16.11.45 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.11
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.3
Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Uncontrolled search path element in Visual Studio allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-24998 Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24998
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss