CVE-2025-49739 Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
An attacker can elevate privileges via improper link resolution in Visual Studio, requiring a patch to mitigate the risk.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-49739?
CVE-2025-49739 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio, published on 8 Jul 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Visual Studio allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Weakness: CWE-59
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-49739?
It affects 4 products.
Products include Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio 2017, Microsoft Visual Studio 2019, Microsoft Visual Studio 2022.
How do I fix CVE-2025-49739?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-49739 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-49739 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-49739 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Visual Studio
- CVE-2022-35777 Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2022-35825 Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2022-35826 Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2022-35827 Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2024-20656 Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cf69-g2cj-5w8c.