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CVE-2023-29338

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-29338 is a spoofing vulnerability affecting Microsoft Visual Studio Code. With a CVSS score of 6.6 (Medium), it requires local access and user interaction (UI:R) for exploitation, potentially leading to high confidentiality and integrity impacts. While no active exploitation (KEV: No) or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None) has been identified, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.78.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_code:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.0.0, < 1.78.1CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_code:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.6MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.88%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0088 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 382 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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 CodeFixed in: 1.78.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2023-May/CVE-2023-29338Important

Visual Studio Code Spoofing Vulnerability

May 9, 2023

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-29338
PatchVendor Advisory