CVE-2025-24039

Summary

CVE-2025-24039 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Visual Studio Code. Attackers can exploit this issue to gain higher access privileges within the software, potentially leading to unauthorized modification or extraction of sensitive data. The vulnerability is caused by insufficient input validation in the handling of user input during the installation process. Microsoft has released a patch to address this issue, and users are encouraged to update their Visual Studio Code installations as soon as possible to mitigate the risk.

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