CVE-2024-26165 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published: 2024-03-12

Score: 8.8 High

EPSS: 2.5% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Microsoft

Visual Studio Code

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`1.0.0`	affected	< 1.87.2

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_code:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2024-23441	Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02459.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-26165

History

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		NVD-CWE-noinfo

Subscriptions

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published: 2024-03-12T16:58:15.034Z

Updated: 2025-05-03T00:47:11.878Z

Reserved: 2024-02-14T22:23:54.096Z

Link: CVE-2024-26165

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T23:59:32.725Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-03-12T17:15:55.817

Modified: 2024-12-27T17:52:57.313

Link: CVE-2024-26165

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

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