CVE-2025-21176.NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 2.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 16% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
.NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 40 days later
· 40 days later
Published
- 17 months later
· 17 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoftCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
- affected 8.0.0 – < 8.0.12
- affected 9.0.0 – < 9.0.1
Microsoft · Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.6.2/4.7/4.7.1/4.7.2
- affected 3.0.0.0 – < 10.0.14393.7699
Microsoft · Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.7.2
- affected 4.7.0 – < 4.7.04126.01
Microsoft · Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.8
- affected 4.8.0 – < 4.8.04775.01
Microsoft · Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.8.1
- affected 4.8.1 – < 4.8.1.09294.01
Microsoft · Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2
- affected 4.7.0 – < 4.7.04126.01
Microsoft · Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2/4.7/4.7.1/4.7.2
- affected 4.7.0 – < 4.7.04126.01
Microsoft · Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6/4.6.2
- affected 10.0.0.0 – < 10.0.10240.20890
Microsoft · Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8
- affected 4.8.0 – < 4.8.04775.01
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3
- affected 14.0.0 – < 14.0.24252.2
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)
- affected 15.9.0 – < 15.9.69
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10)
- affected 16.11.0 – < 16.11.43
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10
- affected 17.10.0 – < 17.10.10
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12
- affected 17.12.0 – < 17.12.4
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6
- affected 17.6.0 – < 17.6.22
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8
- affected 17.8.0 – < 17.8.17
Affected packages
Affected packages12
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- NuGetMicrosoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.linux-armGHSA-gjf6-3w4p-7xfh (opens in a new tab)
- NuGetMicrosoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.linux-arm64GHSA-gjf6-3w4p-7xfh (opens in a new tab)
- NuGetMicrosoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-armGHSA-gjf6-3w4p-7xfh (opens in a new tab)
- NuGetMicrosoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-arm64GHSA-gjf6-3w4p-7xfh (opens in a new tab)
- NuGetMicrosoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.linux-musl-x64GHSA-gjf6-3w4p-7xfh (opens in a new tab)
- NuGetMicrosoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.linux-x64GHSA-gjf6-3w4p-7xfh (opens in a new tab)
- NuGetMicrosoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.osx-arm64GHSA-gjf6-3w4p-7xfh (opens in a new tab)
- NuGetMicrosoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.osx-x64GHSA-gjf6-3w4p-7xfh (opens in a new tab)
- NuGetMicrosoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.win-armGHSA-gjf6-3w4p-7xfh (opens in a new tab)
- NuGetMicrosoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.win-arm64GHSA-gjf6-3w4p-7xfh (opens in a new tab)
- NuGetMicrosoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.win-x64GHSA-gjf6-3w4p-7xfh (opens in a new tab)
- NuGetMicrosoft.NetCore.App.Runtime.win-x86GHSA-gjf6-3w4p-7xfh (opens in a new tab)
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-0073 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-gjf6-3w4p-7xfh (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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