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CVE-2021-31938

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-31938 describes an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability within the Microsoft VS Code Kubernetes Tools Extension. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability allows an attacker to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts through a low-complexity, user-interaction-required attack. While it was addressed in the June 2021 Patch Tuesday, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion beyond a single media article.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:kubernetes_tools:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.3HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0200 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 11,617 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Visual Studio Code - Kubernetes ToolsFixed in: 1.3.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2021-Jun/CVE-2021-31938Important

Microsoft VsCode Kubernetes Tools Extension Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Jun 8, 2021

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2021-31938
PatchVendor Advisory