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Vulnerability · CVE-2025-21264

Files or directories accessible to external parties in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.

Published May 13, 2025 · catalog updated Feb 13, 2026 · Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Check this week

CVE-2025-21264 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 79.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run Microsoft Visual Studio Code.

Gaps on this record

  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
Severity
High7.1
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
79.00%
Remediation
Version ranges on file
Affected products
vendor Microsoft Visual Studio Code 1.0.0 <1.100.1

Files or directories accessible to external parties in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • vendor Microsoft Visual Studio Code 1.0.0 <1.100.11.0.0 <1.100.1

How to fix CVE-2025-21264

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2025-21264 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 79.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run Microsoft Visual Studio Code.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with Microsoft Visual Studio Code 1.0.0 <1.100.1 1.0.0 <1.100.1. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 79.00%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. May 13, 2025 · EUVD

    Detected

    Files or directories accessible to external parties in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.

  2. Feb 13, 2026 · EUVD

    Updated

    Files or directories accessible to external parties in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-21264

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-14440

    Files or directories accessible to external parties in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 17, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.