CVE-2025-21178 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2025-21178

Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Vulnerability Description

Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

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
Vulnerable Versions:
14.0.0, 15.9.0, 16.11.0, 17.10.0, 17.12.0, 17.6.0, 17.8.0

Timeline

Official Publish: January 14th, 2025
Last Modified: June 9th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: 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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-122 CWE-125

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
Execution
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1055 Process Injection
Defense Evasion
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1213 Data from Information Repositories
Collection
T1003 OS Credential Dumping
Credential Access
T1552 Unsecured Credentials
Credential Access