CVE-2026-40376
Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
At a glance
- Severity
- HIGH 7.5
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.67 % · percentile 52 (2026-10-27)
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- microsoft
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Description
Improper input validation in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C | microsoft |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | NVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary) |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) |
Weaknesses (CWE)
European references
CERT-FR advisories
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_code:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 1.0.0 < 1.123.2
Affected products
References
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