Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to gather information specific to the environment of the targeted component.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker would need to send a specially crafted request to a host running the Visual Studio Code Remote Development Extension. This issue only affects systems configured to host a remote development environment.
Security updates
1.64.1 — https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_64
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.1
Visual Studio Code Remote Development Extension Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Visual Studio Code Remote Development Extension Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2022-21991 Visual Studio Code Remote Development Extension Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-21991
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss