Vulnerabilities fixed in Microsoft Visual Studio

Microsoft has fixed vulnerabilities in Visual Studio. A malicious person could exploit the vulnerabilities to grant themselves elevated privileges, or execute arbitrary code. Some of the vulnerabilities were previously fixed in the code of several open source projects related to GIT. Visual Studi...

CVE-2025-49739

Improper link resolution before file access 'link following' in Visual Studio allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network...

CVE-2025-49739

Improper link resolution before file access 'link following' in Visual Studio allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network...

CVE-2025-49714

Trust boundary violation in Visual Studio Code - Python extension allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally...

CVE-2025-49714

Trust boundary violation in Visual Studio Code - Python extension allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally...

CVE-2025-49739 Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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CVE-2025-49739

CVE-2025-49739: Visual Studio elevation of privilege due to improper link resolution before file access ("link following"). The issue could allow a network-access attacker to elevate privileges on a affected machine. Connected sources indicate this CVE has public exploits (per Kaspersky entry in ...

CVE-2025-49739 Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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CVE-2025-49714 Visual Studio Code Python Extension Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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CVE-2025-49714 Visual Studio Code Python Extension Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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CVE-2025-49714

CVE-2025-49714 involves the Visual Studio Code Python Extension. The connected sources describe a trust boundary violation that can let an unauthorized attacker execute code locally, effectively a remote code execution scenario through the Python extension. The vulnerability is tied to Visual Stu...

GitHub: CVE-2025-46334 Git Malicious Shell Vulnerability

CVE-2025-46334 is regarding a vulnerability in Git GUI Windows only where a malicious repository can ship versions of sh.exe or typical textconv filter programs such as astextplain. On Windows, path lookup can find such executables in the worktree. These programs are invoked when the user selects...

GitHub: CVE-2025-48386 Git Credential Helper Vulnerability

CVE-2025-48386 is regarding a vulnerability in Git where the wincred credential helper uses a static buffer target as a unique key for storing and comparing against internal storage. This credential helper does not properly bounds check the available space remaining in the buffer before appending...

GitHub: CVE-2025-27613 Gitk Arguments Vulnerability

CVE-2025-27613 is regarding a vulnerability in Gitk where when a user clones an untrusted repository and runs Gitk without additional command arguments, any writable file can be created and truncated. The option "Support per-file encoding" must have been enabled. The operation "Show origin of thi...

Description of the security update for Visual Studio 2015 Update 3: July 8, 2025 (KB5063035)

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Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Improper link resolution before file access 'link following' in Visual Studio allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network...

GitHub: CVE-2025-46835 Git File Overwrite Vulnerability

CVE-2025-46835 is regarding a vulnerability in Git GUI where when a user clones an untrusted repository and is tricked into editing a file located in a maliciously named directory in the repository, then Git GUI can create and overwrite any writable file. GitHub created this CVE on their behalf...

Visual Studio Code Python Extension Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Trust boundary violation in Visual Studio Code - Python extension allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally...

Malicious Pull Request Targets 6,000+ Developers via Vulnerable Ethcode VS Code Extension

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a supply chain attack targeting a Microsoft Visual Studio Code VS Code extension called Ethcode that has been installed a little over 6,000 times. The compromise, per ReversingLabs, occurred via a GitHub pull request that was opened by a user named Airez299 ...

PT-2025-28625

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Visual Studio affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns improper link resolution before file access, also known as 'link following', which allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network...