Summary
Impact: Security Feature Bypass. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker could host a malicious server and convince a user to connect to it from an affected client. When the client processes the server's response, the attacker could execute code on the client system. User interaction is required.
Security updates
1.145.3 — https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_145
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Visual Studio Code Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Server-side request forgery (ssrf) in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network.
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2026-119983 Visual Studio Code Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-119983
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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