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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Visual Studio Code. It has been classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component ESLint Extension. The manipulation leads to injection. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-1481. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Visual Studio Code (Programming Tool Software) (unknown version). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component ESLint Extension. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the ESLint extension for Visual Studio Code when it validates source code after opening a project, aka 'Visual Studio Code ESLint Extention Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'.

The weakness was disclosed 07/14/2020 as confirmed security update guide (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at portal.msrc.microsoft.com. The public release has been coordinated in cooperation with Microsoft. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-1481. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1055 according to MITRE ATT&CK. The advisory points out:

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the ESLint extension for Visual Studio Code when it validates source code after opening a project. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Programming Tool Software

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• Microsoft

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• Visual Studio Code

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.microsoft.com/

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