CVE-2024-26165 (GCVE-0-2024-26165)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-12 16:58 – Updated: 2025-05-03 00:47
VLAI?
Title
Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Summary
Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CWE
  • CWE-256 - Plaintext Storage of a Password
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Microsoft Visual Studio Code Affected: 1.0.0 , < 1.87.2 (custom)
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Date Public ?
2024-03-12 07:00
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