CVE-2025-21206: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Visual Studio Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Affected products

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017: from 15.0, before 15.9.70 (fixed in 15.9.70)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019: from 16.0, before 16.11.44 (fixed in 16.11.44)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022: from 17.8, before 17.8.18 (fixed in 17.8.18); from 17.10, before 17.10.11 (fixed in 17.10.11); from 17.12, before 17.12.5 (fixed in 17.12.5)

Published 2025-02-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.