CVE-2026-41612

Visual Studio Code Information Disclosure Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: May 12, 2026
Updated: Aug 10, 2026
Reserved: Apr 21, 2026

Description

Relative path traversal in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information locally.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft

Weaknesses

CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Visual Studio Code - Live Preview extensionMicrosoft	0.4.0 to before 0.4.19Affected

References

Visual Studio Code Information Disclosure Vulnerabilityvendor-advisorypatch

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