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CVE-2025-21264
Visual Studio Code Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
High7.1EPSS 0.79%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microsoft
Description
Files or directories accessible to external parties in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoftCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.79% · top 44% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Weakness
Affected products
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio Code CoPilot Chat Extension
- affected 0.27.0 – < 0.27.2
Microsoft · Visual Studio Code
- affected 1.0.0 – < 1.100.1
References (1)
- Visual Studio Code Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisorypatch
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2025-21264)Record last updated .