CVE-2025-29803
Uncontrolled search path element in Visual Studio Tools for Applications and SQL Server Management Studio allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 7.3
- CVSS vector
- 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
- EPSS probability
- 0.75%
- CWE
- CWE-427
- Published
- 2025-04-12
- Last modified
- 2026-08-10
Affected products
- Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 20.2
- Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA)
- Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA)
- Microsoft VSTA 2019 SDK
- Microsoft VSTA 2022 SDK
Weakness type
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