CVE-2019-16765

State: Published
Severity: 7.4 High
Published: Nov 25, 2019
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Sep 24, 2019

Description

If an attacker can get a user to open a specially prepared directory tree as a workspace in Visual Studio Code with the CodeQL extension active, arbitrary code of the attacker's choosing may be executed on the user's behalf. This is fixed in version 1.0.1 of the extension. Users should upgrade to this version using Visual Studio Code Marketplace's upgrade mechanism. After upgrading, the codeQL.cli.executablePath setting can only be set in the per-user settings, and not in the per-workspace settings. More information about VS Code settings can be found here.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.4 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
vscode-codeqlgithub	< 1.0.1 to before 1.0.1Affected

References

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