CVE-2025-29803HighMicrosoft CVSS 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Microsoft security update for CVE-2025-29803

Published
April 8, 2025
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-29803 →

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products5

  • SQL Server Management Studio 20.2
  • VSTA 2019 SDK
  • VSTA 2022 SDK
  • Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) 2019
  • Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) 2022

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 5 updates

5 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update16.0.35907.0
—Security Update17.0.35906.0
—Security Update17.0.35906.0
—Security Update16.0.35907.0
—Security Update20.2.37.0

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2025-29803

EchelonGraph score
7.3 HIGH
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

Uncontrolled search path element in Visual Studio Tools for Applications and SQL Server Management Studio allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2025-29803, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (6)