CVE-2025-24998: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Uncontrolled search path element in Visual Studio allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Affected products

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017: from 15.0, before 15.9.71 (fixed in 15.9.71)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019: from 16.0, before 16.11.45 (fixed in 16.11.45)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022: from 17.8.0, before 17.8.19 (fixed in 17.8.19); from 17.10.0, before 17.10.12 (fixed in 17.10.12); from 17.12.0, before 17.12.6 (fixed in 17.12.6); from 17.13.0, before 17.13.3 (fixed in 17.13.3)

Published 2025-03-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.