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CVE-2019-1425

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-1425 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 and 2019. It arises when Visual Studio improperly validates hardlinks during archived file extraction. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (MEDIUM), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and could lead to high integrity impact (I:H) if exploited. While no public exploit code or active exploitation is confirmed, it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
15.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2017:15.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019:16.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019:16.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.12%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0312 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.0
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2019-Nov/CVE-2019-1425Important

Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Nov 12, 2019

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1425
PatchVendor Advisory