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Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Products (July 2025)

high Nessus Plugin ID 241959

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Synopsis

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

 - Vulnerability in Gitk where when a user clones an untrusted repository and runs Gitk without additional command arguments, any writable file can be created and truncated. The option 'Support per-file encoding' must have been enabled. (CVE-2025-27613)

 - Vulnerability in Gitk where a Git repository can be crafted in such a way that a user who has cloned the repository can be tricked into running any script supplied by the attacker by invoking gitk filename, where filename has a particular structure. (CVE-2025-27614)

 - Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Visual Studio allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network. (CVE-2025-49739)

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 17.14.8 for Visual Studio 2022
 - Update 17.12.10 for Visual Studio 2022
 - Update 17.10.17 for Visual Studio 2022
 - Update 17.8.23 for Visual Studio 2022
 - Update 16.11.49 for Visual Studio 2019
 - Update 15.9.75 for Visual Studio 2017

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ac543469

http://www.nessus.org/u?a54d8657

http://www.nessus.org/u?d4d8dfa0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 241959

File Name: smb_nt_ms25_jul_visual_studio.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 7/11/2025

Updated: 7/11/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-49739

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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: 7/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-27613, CVE-2025-27614, CVE-2025-46334, CVE-2025-46835, CVE-2025-48384, CVE-2025-48385, CVE-2025-48386, CVE-2025-49739

IAVA: 2025-A-0494