CVE-2025-21206

HIGH

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 < 15.9.70 - Uncontrolled Search Path

Title source: rule

Visual Studio Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVSS v3 7.3

EPSS 0.0043

EPSS Percentile 62.9%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

CWE

CWE-427

Status published

Products (3)

microsoft/visual_studio_2017 15.0 - 15.9.70

microsoft/visual_studio_2019 16.0 - 16.11.44

microsoft/visual_studio_2022 17.8 - 17.8.18

Published Feb 11, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026