CVE-2025-62453
Visual Studio Code vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2025-62453 is a security feature bypass vulnerability affecting GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code. The vulnerability was disclosed on November 11, 2025, and involves improper validation of generative AI output that allows an authorized attacker to bypass security features locally (NVD, Rapid7). The vulnerability affects Visual Studio Code versions up to (excluding) 1.105.0.

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.0 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability requires local access, low attack complexity, low privileges, and user interaction. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-693 (Protection Mechanism Failure) (NVD).

Impact

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability allows an authorized attacker to bypass security features within the local environment. The impact is primarily focused on integrity (High), while there are no direct impacts on confidentiality or availability (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Microsoft has released a security update to address this vulnerability. Users should upgrade Visual Studio Code to version 1.105.0 or later to mitigate this security feature bypass vulnerability (NVD).

Additional resources


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