Microsoft disclosed elevation-of-privilege flaws in Visual Studio and Windows SDK

Microsoft published Security Update Guide entries for multiple elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities affecting developer tooling, including Visual Studio and the Windows SDK. The referenced issues include CVE-2025-55240 and CVE-2024-49044 in Visual Studio, as well as CVE-2025-47962 in the Windows SDK, indicating that software used to build and maintain applications was impacted rather than a single end-user product.

The disclosures appeared across both vulnerability and advisory pages in Microsoft's update portal, with CVE-2024-49044 listed in both formats. While the entries provided no public synopsis in the referenced material, the classification of all three flaws as elevation-of-privilege bugs signals a risk that an attacker could gain higher permissions through affected development environments, making patch review and remediation in enterprise developer workstations a priority.