Summary
Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
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 includes unauthorized access to the file system, specifically file path information.
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that a user trigger the payload in the application.
Security updates
0.4.19 — https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.live-server
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.5
Visual Studio Code Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Relative path traversal in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information locally.
Revision history
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-41612 Visual Studio Code Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-41612
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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