High
Security advisory
The unofficial vscode-rufo extension before 0.0.4 for Visual Studio Code allows attackers to execute arbitrary binaries if the user opens a crafted workspace folder.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-29658
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The unofficial vscode-rufo extension before 0.0.4 for Visual Studio Code allows attackers to execute arbitrary binaries if the user opens a crafted workspace folder.
osv:CVE-2021-29658
Complete source record
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"published_at": "2021-03-31T17:15:13.197+00:00"
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