CVE-2025-24039
Published: 11 February 2025
Description
Adversaries may abuse dynamic-link library files (DLLs) in order to achieve persistence, escalate privileges, and evade defenses.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-24039 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Visual Studio Code. Classified under CWE-427 (Untrusted Search Path), it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating a high-severity issue published on 2025-02-11.
A local attacker with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability under low complexity conditions (AC:L) that require user interaction (UI:R). Successful exploitation enables high-impact effects on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H) with unchanged scope (S:U), typically allowing the attacker to elevate privileges on the affected system.
Mitigation guidance is available in the Microsoft Security Response Center advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24039.
Details
- CWE(s)
Affected Products
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
CWE-427 Untrusted Search Path vulnerability directly enables DLL Search Order Hijacking (T1038) to achieve local privilege escalation.