CVE-2019-16765

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-16765
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-25 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-10-28 13:02:00 UTC
DescriptionIf an attacker can get a user to open a specially prepared directory tree as a workspace in Visual Studio Code with the CodeQL extension active, arbitrary code of the attacker's choosing may be executed on the user's behalf. This is fixed in version 1.0.1 of the extension. Users should upgrade to this version using Visual Studio Code Marketplace's upgrade mechanism. After upgrading, the codeQL.cli.executablePath setting can only be set in the per-user settings, and not in the per-workspace settings. More information about VS Code settings can be found here.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Microsoft Codeql All All All All
Application Microsoft Codeql All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Change distribution settings to machine scope by henrymercer · Pull Request #174 · github/vscode-codeql · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Arbitrary code execution when opening a malicious workspace · Advisory · github/vscode-codeql · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
vscode-codeql/CHANGELOG.md at v1.0.1 · github/vscode-codeql · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes
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