CVE-2025-24070: ASP.NET Core and Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Overview

Severity

High (CVSS 7)

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Category

Elevation of Privilege

Exploit Status

Not Exploited

Exploitation Likelihood

Less Likely

Patch Tuesday

2025-Mar

Released

2025-03-11

EPSS Score

0.32% (percentile: 55.0%)

Description

Weak authentication in ASP.NET Core & Visual Studio allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

FAQ

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the privileges of the compromised user. According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability? Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to gather information specific to the environment and take additional actions prior to exploitation to prepare the target environment.

Affected Products (6)

Developer Tools

• ASP.NET Core 8.0
• ASP.NET Core 9.0
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.13
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10

Security Updates (6)

• 5054229
• 5054230
• Release Notes
• Release Notes
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Acknowledgments

Zahid TOKAT

Revision History

• 2025-03-11: Information published.