CVE-2025-21178 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Microsoft	Visual Studio 2017 Visual Studio 2019 Visual Studio 2022

Configuration 1 [-]

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	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019::::::-::*
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	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2022::::::::
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No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21178

History

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Microsoft Microsoft visual Studio 2017 Microsoft visual Studio 2019 Microsoft visual Studio 2022
Weaknesses		NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2017:::::::: cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019::::::-::* cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2022::::::::
Vendors & Products		Microsoft Microsoft visual Studio 2017 Microsoft visual Studio 2019 Microsoft visual Studio 2022

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Title		Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Weaknesses		CWE-122 CWE-125
References		https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21178
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published: 2025-01-14T18:04:01.376Z

Updated: 2025-02-21T20:29:12.507Z

Reserved: 2024-12-05T21:43:30.761Z

Link: CVE-2025-21178

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-01-15T14:53:55.534Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-01-14T18:15:30.847

Modified: 2025-01-27T18:42:39.560

Link: CVE-2025-21178

Redhat

No data.

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