CVE-2025-25003
Published: 11 March 2025
Description
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-25003 is an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability (CWE-427) in Visual Studio. Published on 2025-03-11T17:16:38.043, 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 high potential impact from local exploitation.
A local attacker with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability with low attack complexity (AC:L), provided they induce user interaction (UI:R). Successful exploitation enables privilege escalation, resulting in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H) within the local scope (S:U).
The Microsoft Security Response Center advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-25003 details mitigation strategies and available patches for addressing this issue.
Details
- CWE(s)
Affected Products
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Uncontrolled search path element (CWE-427) directly enables DLL side-loading and path interception by search order hijacking to load attacker-controlled code, facilitating local privilege escalation.