MSRC-CVE-2025-49739 — 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 this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

Security updates
15.9.75 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
16.11.49 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.11
17.12.10 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
14.0.27564.0 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063035

Vulnerabilities 1

High 8.8

CVE-2025-49739

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Visual Studio allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14 Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10) Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)

Jul 8, 2025

Revision history

2025-07-08 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2025-49739 Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-49739
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