CVE-2021-1639

published 2021-02-25

CVE-2021-1639: Visual Studio Code Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Priority P3 39 high 7.8 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR N UI R S U C H I H A H

Visual Studio Code Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Affected

12 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
microsoft	microsoft_visual_studio_2017_version_15.9	>= 15.9.0 < publication	publication
microsoft	microsoft_visual_studio_2019_version_16.4	>= 16.0 < publication	publication
microsoft	microsoft_visual_studio_2019_version_16.7	>= 16.0.0 < publication	publication
microsoft	microsoft_visual_studio_2019_version_16.8	>= 16.0 < publication	publication
microsoft	visual_studio_2017	15.0 – 15.9	—
microsoft	visual_studio_2019	16.0 – 16.8	—
microsoft	visual_studio_code	>= 1.0.0 < publication	publication
msrc	microsoft_visual_studio_2017_version_15.9	—	—
msrc	microsoft_visual_studio_2019_version_16.4	—	—
msrc	microsoft_visual_studio_2019_version_16.7	—	—
msrc	microsoft_visual_studio_2019_version_16.8	—	—
msrc	visual_studio_code	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

vendor_msrc 7.0 HIGH

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