MSRC-CVE-2023-29338 — Visual Studio Code Spoofing Vulnerability

Summary

Impact: Spoofing. 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) and privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An authorized attacker must send the user a malicious file and convince the user to open it.

Security updates
1.78.1 — https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_78

Vulnerabilities 1

Medium 6.6

CVE-2023-29338

Visual Studio Code Spoofing Vulnerability

Visual Studio Code Spoofing Vulnerability

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

May 9, 2023

Revision history

2023-05-09 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2023-29338 Visual Studio Code Spoofing Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-29338
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss