Visual Studio Code Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability (Microsoft Visual Studio Code)

CVE-2026-102851
MEDIUM 6.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.27 % · percentile 18 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Undergoing Analysis

Description

Incorrect privilege assignment in Visual Studio Code allows an authorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-266 — Incorrect Privilege Assignment

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:NNVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft · Visual Studio Codeaffected 1.0.0 < 1.141.1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD