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High 7.3Published Oct 14, 2025
CVE-2025-55240Improper access control in Visual Studio allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
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Improper access control in Visual Studio allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- CVSS
- 7.3 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-284
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
microsoft visual_studio_2017 microsoft:visual_studio_2017 | from 15.0 before 15.9.77 | NVD |
microsoft visual_studio_2019 microsoft:visual_studio_2019 | from 16.0 before 16.11.52 | NVD |
microsoft visual_studio_2022 microsoft:visual_studio_2022 | from 17.10.0 before 17.10.20; from 17.12.0 before 17.12.13; from 17.14.0 before 17.14.17 | NVD |
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-55240vendor-advisory
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