Vulnerability · Published Mar 18, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-28792
High 7.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.7% (higher than 77% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.7%top 23.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
The unofficial Swift Development Environment extension before 2.12.1 for Visual Studio Code allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by constructing a malicious workspace with a crafted sourcekit-lsp.serverPath, swift.languageServerPath, swift.path.sourcekite, swift.path.sourcekiteDockerMode, swift.path.swift_driver_bin, or swift.path.shell configuration value that triggers execution upon opening the workspace.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/vknabel/vscode-swift-development-environment/releases/tag/2.12.1 x_refsource_MISC
- https://vuln.ryotak.me/advisories/14 x_refsource_MISC