Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-21173 | .NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-21173 | .NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Executive summary

Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET 8.0, and .NET 9.0. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their environments to remove this vulnerability.

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to writing a specially crafted file in the security context of the local system. This only affects .NET on Linux operating systems.

Announcement

Announcement for this issue can be found at dotnet/announcements#337

Mitigation factors

Microsoft has not identified any mitigating factors for this vulnerability.

Affected software

• Any .NET 8.0 SDK.
• Any .NET 9.0 SDK.

Affected Packages

The vulnerability does not affect Microsoft .NET packages.

Advisory FAQ

How do I know if I am affected?

If you have an SDK with a version listed, you're exposed to the vulnerability.

How do I fix the issue?

1. To fix the issue please install the latest version of .NET 8.0 SDK or .NET 9.0 SDK, as appropriate.

• You can list the versions you have installed by running the dotnet --info command. You will see output like the following;

.NET SDK:
 Version:           9.0.100
 Commit:            59db016f11
 Workload version:  9.0.100-manifests.3068a692
 MSBuild version:   17.12.7+5b8665660

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Mac OS X
 OS Version:  15.2
 OS Platform: Darwin
 RID:         osx-arm64
 Base Path:   /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/9.0.100/

.NET workloads installed:
There are no installed workloads to display.
Configured to use loose manifests when installing new manifests.

Host:
  Version:      9.0.0
  Architecture: arm64
  Commit:       9d5a6a9aa4

.NET SDKs installed:
  9.0.100 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]

.NET runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 9.0.0 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 9.0.0 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]

Other architectures found:
  x64   [/usr/local/share/dotnet]
    registered at [/etc/dotnet/install_location_x64]

Environment variables:
  Not set

global.json file:
  Not found

Learn more:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet/info

Download .NET:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet/download

Once you have installed the updated SDK, restart your apps for the update to take effect.

Other Information

Reporting Security Issues

If you have found a potential security issue in .NET 8.0 or .NET 9.0, please email details to [email protected]. Reports may qualify for the Microsoft .NET Core & .NET 5 Bounty. Details of the Microsoft .NET Bounty Program including terms and conditions are at https://aka.ms/corebounty.

Support

You can ask questions about this issue on GitHub in the .NET GitHub organization. The main repos are located at https://github.com/dotnet/runtime. The Announcements repo (https://github.com/dotnet/Announcements) will contain this bulletin as an issue and will include a link to a discussion issue. You can ask questions in the linked discussion issue.

Disclaimer

The information provided in this advisory is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Microsoft disclaims all warranties, either express or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall Microsoft Corporation or its suppliers be liable for any damages whatsoever including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business profits or special damages, even if Microsoft Corporation or its suppliers have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages so the foregoing limitation may not apply.

External Links

CVE-2025-21173

Revisions

V1.0 (January 14, 2024): Advisory published.

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