Visual Studio Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01525.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8) affected
Version Status Constraints
15.9.0 affected < 15.9.70
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10) affected
Version Status Constraints
16.11.0 affected < 16.11.44
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 affected
Version Status Constraints
17.10.0 affected < 17.10.11
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12 affected
Version Status Constraints
17.12.0 affected < 17.12.5
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 affected
Version Status Constraints
17.8.0 affected < 17.8.18

Configuration 1 [-]

OR cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2017:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2022:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2022:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2022:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-2276 Visual Studio Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21206 cve-icon cve-icon
History

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Microsoft visual Studio

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Microsoft visual Studio
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Microsoft visual Studio

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00292}

 epss

{'score': 0.00325}

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Microsoft
Microsoft visual Studio 2017
Microsoft visual Studio 2019
Microsoft visual Studio 2022
Weaknesses NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2017:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2022:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Microsoft
Microsoft visual Studio 2017
Microsoft visual Studio 2019
Microsoft visual Studio 2022

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Visual Studio Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Title Visual Studio Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Weaknesses CWE-427
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C'}

Projects

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-13T19:44:11.655Z

Reserved: 2024-12-05T21:43:30.768Z

Link: CVE-2025-21206

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-02-11T19:17:21.170Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-02-11T18:15:31.610

Modified: 2025-02-28T16:02:50.353

Link: CVE-2025-21206

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses