Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Visual Studio Code - CVE-2019-1414
Published: October 17, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU21926
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-1414
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code. A local user can run a specially crafted application to inject and execute arbitrary code on the system in context of the current user.
Affected software
Visual Studio Code
How to mitigate CVE-2019-1414
Install updates from vendor's website.
Visual Studio Code - update to 1.39.1