# Visual Studio Tools for Applications and SQL Server Management Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE record · `CVE-2025-29803`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2025-29803`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.3 High
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** microsoft
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-427](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/427.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-427](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-427.md)
- **Technologies:** [Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 20.2](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/microsoft-sql-server-management-studio-20-2.md) · [Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA)](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/microsoft-visual-studio-tools-for-applications-vsta.md) · [Microsoft VSTA 2019 SDK](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/microsoft-vsta-2019-sdk.md) · [Microsoft VSTA 2022 SDK](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/microsoft-vsta-2022-sdk.md)
- **Published:** 12 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 10 Aug 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: microsoft) at 12 Apr 2025, 01:32 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Microsoft. Product: SQL Server Management Studio 20.2.
  - affected: `20.0 to before 20.2.37.0` (custom)
- Vendor: Microsoft. Product: Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA).
  - affected: `16.0 to before 16.0.35907.0` (custom)
- Vendor: Microsoft. Product: Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA).
  - affected: `17.0 to before 17.0.35906.0` (custom)
- Vendor: Microsoft. Product: VSTA 2019 SDK.
  - affected: `16.0 to before 16.0.35907.0` (custom)
- Vendor: Microsoft. Product: VSTA 2022 SDK.
  - affected: `17.0 to before 17.0.35906.0` (custom)

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 7.3 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C`, from CNA (microsoft)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0077, the 55th percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 12 Apr 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2025-29803](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-29803)
- [NVD: CVE-2025-29803](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-29803)

### References from the CNA

- <https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-29803> (vendor-advisory, patch)

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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