CVE-2021-21420 describes a vulnerability in the vscode-stripe extension for Visual Studio Code, where loading an untrusted source-code repository containing malicious settings could lead to arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), but has low attack complexity (AC:L), making it a significant risk if exploited. Successful exploitation could result in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not widely known or exploited in the wild.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.7.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:stripe:stripe:*:*:*:*:*:visual_studio_code:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.