CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-41083

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.65%

51th percentile - higher than 51% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in Visual Studio Code allowing elevation of privilege. Technical details were not provided in the description.

Risk Assessment

An attacker with local access could exploit the vulnerability to gain higher privileges, potentially leading to further escalation and compromise of the development environment.

Recommendation

Update Visual Studio Code to the latest version containing the security fix.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS