CVE-2025-21173 | .NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

.NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published: 2025-01-14 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-21173 is rated Moderate Risk (51/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.22%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-21173

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 2.00% 1.22% -0.78%
2 2026-02-28 1.63% 2.00% +0.37%
3 2026-02-22 — 1.63% —

Full EPSS history (32 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-21173

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.3 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 1.3 5.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-21173

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-21173

vendor priority summary link
alpine high CVE-2025-21173: 2 source package rows (dotnet8-runtime, dotnet9-runtime); 6 state rows across 3 repos (3.21-community, 3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 6, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-21173
redhat high — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-21173
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-21173 medium priority: Ubuntu including 4 source packages (dotnet6, dotnet7, dotnet8, dotnet9), 32 status rows across 8 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 22, needs-triage 4, released 4, ignored 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-21173

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-21173

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
microsoft visual_studio_2022 >= 17.6.0, < 17.6.22 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2022:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft visual_studio_2022 >= 17.8.0, < 17.8.17 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2022:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft visual_studio_2022 >= 17.10.0, < 17.10.10 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2022:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft visual_studio_2022 >= 17.12.0, < 17.12.4 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2022:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft .net 8.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:.net:8.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft .net 9.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:.net:9.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-21173

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