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 the privileges of the authenticated user.
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
16.0.35907.0 — https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=58317&msockid=25abd48859306f62096bc0a9588a6e01
17.0.35906.0 — https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=105123&msockid=25abd48859306f62096bc0a9588a6e01
17.0.35906.0 — https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=105122&msockid=25abd48859306f62096bc0a9588a6e01
20.2.37.0 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ssms/release-notes-ssms#previous-ssms-releases
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.3
Visual Studio Tools for Applications and SQL Server Management Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Uncontrolled search path element in Visual Studio Tools for Applications and SQL Server Management Studio allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2025-29803 Visual Studio Tools for Applications and SQL Server Management Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-29803
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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