CVE-2025-21178HighCVSS 8.8
Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do? Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that an attacker convinces a user to open a maliciously crafted package file in Visual Studio.
🎯 Affected products7
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8
✅ Remediation
KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 15.9.69 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 16.11.43 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.6.22 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.8.17 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.10.10 KB5049688 (Security Update) — fixed build 14.0.24252.2 KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 17.12.4
🔗 References (12)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21178
- patchhttp://aka.ms/vs/15/release/latest
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.11
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6
- referencehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10
- patchhttps://aka.ms/vs/14/release/5049688
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/help/5049688
- patchhttps://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12