CVE-2026-81376

Visual Studio Code Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 9.6 Critical
Published: Sep 8, 2026
Updated: Oct 31, 2026
Reserved: Aug 26, 2026

Description

Incomplete comparison with missing factors in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature 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-1023 Incomplete Comparison with Missing Factors
CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Visual Studio CodeMicrosoft	1.0.0 to before 1.136.2Affected

References

Visual Studio Code Security Feature Bypass Vulnerabilityvendor-advisorypatch

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