MSRC-CVE-2026-47285 — Visual Studio Code Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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
1.132.1 — https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_132

Vulnerabilities 1

Medium 6.5

CVE-2026-47285

Visual Studio Code Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Improper neutralization of special elements used in a command ('command injection') in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network.

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Aug 11, 2026

Revision history

2026-09-02 #2
Affected software updated with new package information.
2026-08-11 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2026-47285 Visual Studio Code Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-47285
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