CVE-2022-41083
CVSS 3.1 Score 7.8 of 10 (high)
Details
Published Oct 11, 2022
Updated: Jan 2, 2025
Summary
CVE-2022-41083 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Visual Studio Code. An attacker who successfully exploits this flaw can gain administrative privileges on the targeted system. The vulnerability is located in the handling of a specific file type within the editor, and an attacker can trigger it by persuading a user to open a specially crafted file. Microsoft has released a patch to address this issue, and users are strongly encouraged to update their Visual Studio Code installations as soon as possible to mitigate the risk.
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Affected Vendors
- Microsoft