PT-2025-10841 · Microsoft · Visual Studio

Polar Penguin · Published 2025-03-11 · Updated 2025-03-17 · CVE-2025-24998

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.3

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Visual Studio (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to an uncontrolled search path element in Visual Studio, allowing an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

LPE

Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-427

Related Identifiers

BDU:2025-02642

CVE-2025-24998

Affected Products

Visual Studio

References · 10

• https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24998 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2025-02642 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/transilienceai/status/1901608576092619175 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/WolfgangSesin/status/1900825795674992703 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/msrcreports/1921 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/windowsforum/status/1899582795002916869 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/20117 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1899513934916522189 · Twitter Post