Summary
Impact: Information Disclosure. 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). What interaction would the user have to do?
The user would have be enticed to open a malicious file in vscode. Users should never open anything that they do not know or trust to be safe.
Security updates
1.123.2 — https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 6.5
Visual Studio Code Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
Revision history
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-47284 Visual Studio Code Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-47284
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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