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Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 15.9 Products (March 2025)

high Nessus Plugin ID 232740

Synopsis

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are missing security updates. They are, therefore, affected by a vulnerability:

 - An undisclosed Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2025-24998)

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 15.9.71 for Visual Studio 2017

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?987e03d2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 232740

File Name: smb_nt_ms25_mar_visual_studio_15_9_71.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 3/14/2025

Updated: 3/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

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-2025-24998

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: 3/11/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-24998

IAVA: 2025-A-0178