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High MSRC-CVE-2025-53773 1 CVE

GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Aug 12, 2025 · Updated Sep 8, 2025 · Revision 3

Vendor: Microsoft

Summary

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

Details

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that a user trigger the payload in the application.

According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is a remote code execution?
The word Remote in the title refers to the location of the attacker. This type of exploit is sometimes referred to as Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). The attack itself is carried out locally. This means an attacker or victim needs to execute code from the local machine to exploit the vulnerability.

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

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2025-53773

    GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    Improper neutralization of special elements used in a command ('command injection') in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.

    Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14

Revision history

  1. #3

    Updated an acknowledgement. This is an informational change only.

  2. #2

    Added an acknowledgement. This is an informational change only.

  3. #1

    Information published.

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