Summary
Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, a successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
In this case, a successful attack can break out of the Visual Studio Code Workspace Trust feature. See Workspace Trust for more information.
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 link rendered in a VSCode extension. Users should never open anything that they do not know or trust to be safe.
What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability is file content.
Security updates
1.72.1 — https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_72
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.4
Visual Studio Code Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Visual Studio Code Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2022-41042 Visual Studio Code Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-41042
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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