MSRC-CVE-2026-47287 — Visual Studio Code Tampering Vulnerability

Summary

Impact: Tampering. 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

Medium 6.5

CVE-2026-47287

Visual Studio Code Tampering Vulnerability

Relative path traversal in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to perform tampering over a network.

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Jun 9, 2026

Revision history

2026-06-09 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2026-47287 Visual Studio Code Tampering Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-47287
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