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Fencer Vulns
high 7.3

CVE-2025-29802 json

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

published 2025-04-08 19 mo ago modified 2026-08-10 2 mo ago also EUVD-2025-10114

cvss
7.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Improper access control in Visual Studio allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Patch / fix

  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 17.10.13
  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12 17.12.7
  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 17.8.20

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
19 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.97% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CNA 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10
  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12
  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.