May 2025: Visual Studio Code Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
CVE-2025-21264 Published on May 13, 2025
Visual Studio Code Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Files or directories accessible to external parties in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.
Weakness Type
Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
The product makes files or directories accessible to unauthorized actors, even though they should not be. Web servers, FTP servers, and similar servers may store a set of files underneath a "root" directory that is accessible to the server's users. Applications may store sensitive files underneath this root without also using access control to limit which users may request those files, if any. Alternately, an application might package multiple files or directories into an archive file (e.g., ZIP or tar), but the application might not exclude sensitive files that are underneath those directories.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-21264
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Affected Versions
Microsoft Visual Studio Code CoPilot Chat Extension:- Version 0.27.0 and below 0.27.2 is affected.
- Version 1.0.0 and below 1.100.1 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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