Critical
Security advisory
The unofficial GLSL Linting extension before 1.4.0 for Visual Studio Code allows remote code execution via a crafted glslangValidatorPath in the workspace configuration.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-30503
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:16 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The unofficial GLSL Linting extension before 1.4.0 for Visual Studio Code allows remote code execution via a crafted glslangValidatorPath in the workspace configuration.
osv:CVE-2021-30503
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-30503",
"method": "structured",
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}
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:45.336948728Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/CADENAS.vscode-glsllint/changelog#:~:text=1.4.x",
"https://vuln.ryotak.me/advisories/27",
"https://github.com/hsimpson/vscode-glsllint/commit/3effba525bdff7d4257e66a6815ff956d2bce8ac"
],
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"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 384581,
"published_at": "2021-04-13T02:15:13.48+00:00"
}