Local privilege escalation after user interaction
Published Sep 13, 2022 · Updated Mar 11, 2025
Elevation of privilege in Microsoft Visual Studio Code before 1.71.1 allows local users to gain elevated privileges after user interaction. Microsoft has not published the affected component, the untrusted input, or the incorrect operation that enables the privilege boundary crossing. Exploitation requires existing low-privilege access and action by another user; the vendor has not specified the resulting privilege level.
Summary
What happened
Elevation of privilege in Microsoft Visual Studio Code before 1.71.1 allows local users to gain elevated privileges after user interaction. Microsoft has not published the affected component, the untrusted input, or the incorrect operation that enables the privilege boundary crossing. Exploitation requires existing low-privilege access and action by another user; the vendor has not specified the resulting privilege level.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-38020
- Published
- Sep 13, 2022
- Updated
- Mar 11, 2025
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Visual Studio Code
- Classifications
- T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 13, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 11, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1.0.0 <1.71.1
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