Vulnerability · Published Jul 7, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2025-53536Roo Code allows Potential Remote Code Execution via .vscode/settings.json

High 8.1

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Roo-Code from RooCodeInc. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.8% (higher than 56% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.1High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.8%top 44.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Roo Code is an AI-powered autonomous coding agent. Prior to 3.22.6, if the victim had "Write" auto-approved, an attacker with the ability to submit prompts to the agent could write to VS Code settings files and trigger code execution. There were multiple ways to achieve that. One example is with the php.validate.executablePath setting which lets you set the path for the php executable for syntax validation. The attacker could have written the path to an arbitrary command there and then created a php file to trigger it. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.22.6.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
RooCodeInc	Roo-Code	< 3.22.6

Weakness: CWE-552 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://github.com/RooCodeInc/Roo-Code/security/advisories/GHSA-3765-5vjr-qjgm x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/RooCodeInc/Roo-Code/commit/1be6fce1a6864ae63e8160b0666db2c647f2dbba x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/RooCodeInc/Roo-Code/commit/3993406ebdc0553a32ef391a799a4fb124930a1c x_refsource_MISC