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High MSRC-CVE-2025-32726 1 CVE

Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Apr 8, 2025 · Updated Jul 3, 2025 · Revision 2

Vendor: Microsoft

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

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.

According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to major loss of confidentiality (C:H), and integrity (I:H), and some loss of availability (A:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could view sensitive information (Confidentiality) and modify code in the repo, (Integrity), and they might be able to interfere with availability of the code (Availability).

Security updates
1.99.1 — https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_99

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.8
    CVE-2025-32726

    Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

    Improper access control in Visual Studio Code allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

    Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Revision history

  1. #2

    Added an acknowledgement. This is an informational change only.

  2. #1

    Information published.

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