CVE-2026-47281

Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 9.6 Critical
Published: Jun 9, 2026
Updated: Sep 24, 2026
Reserved: May 18, 2026

Description

Missing authorization in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.6 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft

Weaknesses

CWE-862 Missing Authorization
CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function
CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Visual Studio CodeMicrosoft	1.0.0 to before 1.123.2Affected

References

Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityvendor-advisorypatch

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