Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 17.13 Products (April 2025)

high Nessus Plugin ID 234218

Synopsis

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are missing security updates. They are, therefore, affected by a Improper access control vulnerabilitiy in Visual Studio allows an authorized attacker to eleveate priveleges locally (CVE-2025-29804)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Microsoft has released the following security updates to address this issue:
- Update 17.13.6 for Visual Studio 2022

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b3db65fa

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 234218

File Name: smb_nt_ms25_apr_visual_studio_17-13.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 4/11/2025

Updated: 4/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-29804

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:visual_studio

Required KB Items: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible, SMB/Registry/Enumerated, installed_sw/Microsoft Visual Studio

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-29804

IAVA: 2025-A-0243