Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
The user would have be enticed to open a malicious file in a directory. Users should never open anything that they do not know or trust to be safe.
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute code in the context of another Visual Studio Code user on the vulnerable system.
Security updates
1.71.1 — https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_71
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.3
Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2022-38020 Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-38020
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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