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High MSRC-CVE-2025-47959 1 CVE

Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Jun 10, 2025 · Updated Jun 10, 2025

Summary

Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.

Details

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that the target system be set up in a specific manner and the attacker to have knowledge of that setup.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R) and privileges required is Low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An authorized attacker with standard user privileges could place a malicious file in an online directory or in a local network location and then wait for the user to run the file.

According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is network (AV:N) and the user interaction is required (UI:R). What is the target context of the remote code execution?
This attack requires a specially crafted file to be placed either in an online directory or in a local network location. When a victim runs this file, it loads the malicious DLL.

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

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