Summary
Impact: Security Feature Bypass. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What security feature could be bypassed by successfully exploiting this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could bypass the network access restrictions enforced for the Visual Studio Code agent, allowing outbound connections to resources that the configured policy is intended to block.
Security updates
1.132.1 — https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_132
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.2
Visual Studio Code Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Not failing securely ('failing open') in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network.
Revision history
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#2
Affected software updated with new package information.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-69306 Visual Studio Code Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-69306
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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