Visual Studio Code CVE-2026-102232

Exploitation requires LOCAL interaction (AV:L): the attacker must get crafted content in front of the victim and the victim must act on it (UI:R) - e.g. opening a malicious file, folder, or workspace in Visual Studio Code. AC:H further means exploitation is not reliable on demand and depends on conditions the attacker cannot fully control. No prior authentication or privileges are required (PR:N). The exact feature/configuration that must be present for the authorization bypass is not named in the Microsoft description and should be verified against the MSRC advisory. Limiting factors that reduce real-world risk: mandatory user interaction, no remote/network vector, and high attack complexity; there is no evidence of default-configuration exploitability from the available data.

This is a genuinely moderate-priority issue rather than a drop-everything emergency, and the CVSS 7.0 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U) reflects that well. The defining constraints are AV:L (local attack vector - no remote/network reach) combined with AC:H (high attack complexity - exploitation depends on conditions outside the attacker's control) and UI:R (a user must be induced to act). PR:N indicates no prior privileges are needed, and C:H/I:H/A:H indicate full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability within the user's context if the bypass succeeds. Exploitation status: no public exploit identified at time of analysis - the input provides no EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no POC signal, so there is no evidence of active or at-scale exploitation. No SSVC decision data was supplied. The signals are therefore internally consistent (high impact gated by local access, user interaction, and high complexity) and point to a flaw that is serious if triggered but not easily weaponized at scale. Key missing data to note explicitly: the specific 'security feature' that is bypassed is not named in the sparse Microsoft description, and no EPSS/KEV/POC telemetry was provided, so real-world exploitation likelihood cannot be quantified from the input alone.

An attacker crafts a malicious file, workspace, or project and socially engineers a developer into opening or interacting with it in Visual Studio Code on their own machine. Because of the incorrect authorization flaw (CWE-863), the crafted content bypasses an intended VS Code security control, yielding high-impact access within the victim's user context. No public exploit code is available, and the CVSS AC:H rating indicates reliable exploitation requires specific, non-trivial conditions to be met.