Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-29802

High

Published: 08 April 2025

Published
08 April 2025
Modified
10 July 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0022 44.9th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-29802 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio 2022. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 44.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper access control in Visual Studio allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

microsoft
visual studio 2022
17.8.0 — 17.8.20 · 17.10.0 — 17.10.13 · 17.12.0 — 17.12.7

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References