cve-2025-21405
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-14 18:04
Modified
2025-02-21 20:28
Severity ?
7.3 (High) - 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
Summary
Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
References
secure@microsoft.comhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21405Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12 Version: 17.0   < 17.12.4
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