CVE-2019-16765 describes a critical vulnerability in the CodeQL extension for Visual Studio Code, allowing arbitrary code execution. An attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into opening a malicious directory tree as a workspace while the CodeQL extension is active. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known public exploit tools like Metasploit or Nuclei, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage. The issue is resolved in CodeQL extension version 1.0.1, which restricts the 'codeQL.cli.executablePath' setting to per-user configurations.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:codeql:*:*:*:*:*:visual_studio_code:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
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