MSRC-CVE-2025-29804 — Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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.

Security updates
17.13.6 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.3

CVE-2025-29804

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Improper access control in Visual Studio allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12 Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10

Apr 8, 2025

Revision history

2025-04-08 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2025-29804 Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-29804
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss