Top issues
Detected presence of severe vulnerabilities with active exploitation.
Causes risk: actively exploited vulnerabilities
vulnerabilities
Problem
Software composition analysis has identified a component with one or more known severe vulnerabilities. Available threat intelligence telemetry has confirmed that the reported high or critical severity vulnerabilities are actively being exploited by malicious actors.Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
71 packages
found in
Top 100
568 packages
found in
Top 1k
3198 packages
found in
Top 10k
16595 packages
in community
Next steps
We strongly advise updating the component to the latest version.
If the update can't resolve the issue, create a plan to isolate or replace the affected component.
Detected presence of high severity vulnerabilities.
Causes risk: high severity vulnerabilities
vulnerabilities
Problem
Software composition analysis has identified a component with one or more known vulnerabilities. Based on the CVSS scoring, these vulnerabilities have been marked as high severity.Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
72 packages
found in
Top 100
583 packages
found in
Top 1k
3344 packages
found in
Top 10k
17282 packages
in community
Next steps
Perform impact analysis for the reported CVEs.
Update the component to the latest version.
If the update can't resolve the issue, create a plan to isolate or replace the affected component.
Top behaviors
Might contain potentially obfuscated code or data.
anomaly
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
85 packages
found in
Top 100
673 packages
found in
Top 1k
4329 packages
found in
Top 10k
28768 packages
in community
Encodes data using the Base64 algorithm.
packer
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
81 packages
found in
Top 100
631 packages
found in
Top 1k
3887 packages
found in
Top 10k
24357 packages
in community
Contains a sequence of bytes that can be decoded into a printable string.
packer
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
No behavior prevalence information at this timeEncodes data using the Base16 algorithm.
file
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
83 packages
found in
Top 100
638 packages
found in
Top 1k
3956 packages
found in
Top 10k
23785 packages
in community
Executes files during installation or upon launch.
execution
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
94 packages
found in
Top 100
834 packages
found in
Top 1k
6690 packages
found in
Top 10k
83799 packages
in community
Top vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Exploitation Lifecycle
(1 Active Vulnerabilities)
None
1 (0 Fixable)
CVE-2020-26302h
None
None
Exploits Unknown
Exploits Exist
Exploited by Malware
Patching Mandated