Visual Studio Code Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability New
Released: Feb 11, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- Microsoft
- CVE.org link
- CVE-2025-24039
- Impact
- Elevation of Privilege
- Max Severity
- Important
- Weakness
- CVSS Source
- Microsoft
- Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
- Metrics
- CVSS:3.1 7.3 / 6.4Base score metrics: 7.3 / Temporal score metrics: 6.4
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Exploit Code Maturity
Unproven
Remediation Level
Official Fix
Report Confidence
Confirmed
Please see Common Vulnerability Scoring System for more information on the definition of these metrics.
Exploitability
The following table provides an exploitability assessment for this vulnerability at the time of original publication.
- Publicly disclosed
- No
- Exploited
- No
- Exploitability assessment
- Exploitation Less Likely
FAQ
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
The attacker would gain the rights of the user that is running the affected application.
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R) and privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An authorized attacker with standard user privileges could place a malicious file on the Visual Code server and then wait for the privileged victim to run the server.
Acknowledgements
- ycdxsb
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