What is CVE-2022-38020?

CVE-2022-38020 is a security advisory published by Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) with High severity. Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Which CVE IDs does CVE-2022-38020 cover?

CVE-2022-38020 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2022-38020. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of CVE-2022-38020?

CVE-2022-38020 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.3, published by Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC).

Which products are affected by CVE-2022-38020?

CVE-2022-38020 affects 1 product, including: Visual Studio Code.

CVE-2022-38020HighCVSS 7.3

Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Vendor

Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

Published

September 13, 2022

Last Modified

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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

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📋 Description

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do? The user would have be enticed to open a malicious file in a directory. Users should never open anything that they do not know or trust to be safe.

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute code in the context of another Visual Studio Code user on the vulnerable system.

🎯 Affected products1

Visual Studio Code

✅ Remediation

KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 1.71.1

🔗 References (3)

advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-38020
patchhttps://code.visualstudio.com/Download
referencehttps://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_71