CVE-2025-21405: CWE-284: Improper Access Control in Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12
Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability (CVE-2025-21405) in Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12 is classified under CWE-284 (Improper Access Control). It allows an attacker with limited privileges and user interaction to elevate their privileges, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 7.3, indicating a high severity. Microsoft has released an official fix for this vulnerability as documented in their security update guide.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker with limited privileges to elevate their privileges, resulting in complete compromise of the affected system's confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This could enable unauthorized actions within Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official fix is available from Microsoft. Users and administrators should apply the security update provided by Microsoft for Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12 as soon as possible. Refer to the Microsoft security update guide at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21405 for the official patch and remediation instructions.
CVE-2025-21405: CWE-284: Improper Access Control in Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12
Description
Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVSS v3.1
Score 7.3high
Affected software
Weaknesses
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This vulnerability (CVE-2025-21405) in Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12 is classified under CWE-284 (Improper Access Control). It allows an attacker with limited privileges and user interaction to elevate their privileges, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 7.3, indicating a high severity. Microsoft has released an official fix for this vulnerability as documented in their security update guide.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker with limited privileges to elevate their privileges, resulting in complete compromise of the affected system's confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This could enable unauthorized actions within Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official fix is available from Microsoft. Users and administrators should apply the security update provided by Microsoft for Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12 as soon as possible. Refer to the Microsoft security update guide at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21405 for the official patch and remediation instructions.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- microsoft
- Date Reserved
- 2024-12-11T00:29:48.375Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- official-fix
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21405","vendor":"Microsoft"}]
Threat ID: 68c0bd549ed239a66badec6f
Added to database: 09/09/2025, 23:50:44 UTC
Last enriched: 06/10/2026, 10:01:29 UTC
Last updated: 07/08/2026, 22:28:20 UTC
Views: 244
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