MSRC-CVE-2025-62222 — Agentic AI and Visual Studio Code Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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 vector is network (AV:N) and user interaction is required (UI:R). What is the target context of the remote code execution?
A remote (AV:N) attacker could create a specially crafted GitHub issue within a user's repository. To exploit this, the user must enable a particular mode on the attacker’s crafted issue, which would execute the issue’s description and enable remote code execution by the attacker.

Security updates
0.32.5 — https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/

Vulnerabilities 1

High 8.8

CVE-2025-62222 Public exploit

Agentic AI and Visual Studio Code Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Improper neutralization of special elements used in a command ('command injection') in Visual Studio Code CoPilot Chat Extension allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.

Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio Code CoPilot Chat Extension

Nov 11, 2025

Revision history

2025-11-11 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2025-62222 Agentic AI and Visual Studio Code Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-62222
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