CVE-2025-29804: 
Visual Studio 2022 vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was identified in Microsoft Visual Studio, tracked as CVE-2025-29804. The vulnerability was discovered and reported to Microsoft Corporation, with the CVE being created on March 11, 2025, and publicly disclosed on April 8, 2025. The issue affects Visual Studio installations and stems from improper access control implementation (NVD, CVE).

The vulnerability has been classified as CWE-284 (Improper Access Control). Microsoft has assigned it a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (HIGH) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. This scoring indicates that the vulnerability requires local access, low attack complexity, low privileges, and user interaction to exploit, while potentially impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability at high levels (NVD).

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability allows an authorized attacker with local access to elevate their privileges on the affected system. The high CVSS score indicates significant potential impact on system security, affecting confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system (NVD).