cve-2025-21172
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-14 18:04
Modified
2025-02-21 20:28
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Summary
.NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
References
secure@microsoft.comhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21172Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8) Version: 15.9.0   < 15.9.69
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   Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10) Version: 16.11.0   < 16.11.43
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   Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 Version: 17.6.0   < 17.6.22
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   Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 Version: 17.8.0   < 17.8.17
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   Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 Version: 17.10   < 17.10.10
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   Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 Version: 14.0.0   < 14.0.24252.2
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   Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12 Version: 17.0   < 17.12.4
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   Microsoft .NET 8.0 Version: 8.0.0   < 8.0.12
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   Microsoft .NET 9.0 Version: 9.0.0   < 9.0.1
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