CVE-2021-28789 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting the unofficial apple/swift-format Visual Studio Code extension prior to version 1.1.2. It allows remote attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution by crafting a malicious workspace that, when opened, triggers execution via a specially configured apple-swift-format.path value. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), but once exploited, it can lead to high impact on 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 surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple-swift-format_project:apple-swift-format:*:*:*:*:*:visual_studio:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/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.