CVE-2019-16765 Information

Description

If an attacker can get a user to open a specially prepared directory tree as a workspace in Visual Studio Code with the CodeQL extension active arbitrary code of the attacker’s choosing may be executed on the user’s behalf. This is fixed in version 1.0.1 of the extension. Users should upgrade to this version using Visual Studio Code Marketplace’s upgrade mechanism. After upgrading the codeQL.cli.executablePath setting can only be set in the per-user settings and not in the per-workspace settings. More information about VS Code settings can be found here.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://github.com/github/vscode-codeql/blob/v1.0.1/CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/github/vscode-codeql/pull/174 https://github.com/github/vscode-codeql/security/advisories/GHSA-wf4x-8mpj-r42q

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8