CVE-2022-35975 is a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting the GitOps Tools Extension for VSCode. A specially crafted Flux object can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the machine running the extension, in the context of the user. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or publicly available exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, suggesting awareness among security researchers. The only safe mitigation is to update the extension to the latest version.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 0.7.0, <= 0.20.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:weave:gitops_tools:*:*:*:*:*:visual_studio_code:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 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.