CVE-2026-41612

medium

Published 2026-05-12 · Modified 2026-05-15

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

<p>Relative path traversal in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information locally.</p>

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
windows		affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
microsoft	live_preview	`{"endExcluding":"0.4.19"}`	`0.4.19`

References

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-41612

CWEs

CWE-22 CWE-23

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.