CVE-2025-21178
Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
8.8 High
Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
1.60%Up 1.5 points since Jan 15, 2025
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Record
CVE-2025-21178- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 High
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 - Weakness
- CWE-122, CWE-125
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-2258
Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Record
EUVD-2025-2258- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 High
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 - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-7qvp-9xw6-rpfp
Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Record
GHSA-7qvp-9xw6-rpfp- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-122
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Record
CVE-2025-21178- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-122, CWE-125
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
- 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
- microsoft visual studio 2017
- microsoft visual studio 2019
- microsoft visual studio 2022
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2025-21178 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) in Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, published January 14, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.60%, the 75th percentile. No source names a fixed version.