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Visual Studio Code Tampering Vulnerability

Assessment

Relative path traversal in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to perform tampering over a network.

Severity
Important
CVSS base score
6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Impact
Tampering
EPSS, next 30 days
0.8%Higher than 53.3% of scored CVEs · FIRST model run 29 Sep 2026 · about EPSS
Public exploit code
No Nuclei template lists it
Exploitability
Exploitation Less Likely
Publicly disclosed
No
Customer action
Required: apply the update
Component
Visual Studio Code
Weakness
CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal
Issued by
Microsoft
Published
9 Jun 2026 · June 2026
Last revised
9 Jun 2026

Updates that fix it

0 KBs

No KB listed

MSRC lists no downloadable update, which usually means a service-side fix or a release-notes update. Check the MSRC advisory.

Affected products

Developer Tools
1 affected product
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