CVE Catalog

CVE-2021-34477

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.49%

40th percentile - higher than 40% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the .NET Runtime in Visual Studio Code allows elevation of privilege. An attacker could exploit this flaw to gain higher privileges on the system.

Risk Assessment

Risk of executing malicious code with elevated privileges in the development environment.

Recommendation

Update Visual Studio Code and .NET Runtime components to the latest versions to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Visual Studio Code .NET Runtime Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS