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CVE-2025-21206 (GCVE-0-2025-21206)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-11 17:58 – Updated: 2026-02-13 19:44
VLAI
Title
Visual Studio Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Summary
Visual Studio Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Severity
7.3 (High)
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-11 19:17 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2025-02-11 08:00
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