Top issues
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
68 packages
found in
Top 100
555 packages
found in
Top 1k
3086 packages
found in
Top 10k
17.47k 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.
Detected presence of medium severity vulnerabilities.
Causes risk: medium 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 medium severity.Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
64 packages
found in
Top 100
530 packages
found in
Top 1k
2998 packages
found in
Top 10k
16.52k 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.
Detected presence of plaintext credentials within network protocol strings.
Causes risk: web service credentials found
secrets
Problem
Various network communication protocols allow including plaintext authentication credentials. Information such as user names and passwords could be passed through a non-encrypted channel, and therefore intercepted by malicious actors. Credentials are considered secrets, and should be kept encrypted until they are used. This policy control matches the following URI pattern protocol://username:password@domain within any software package component.Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
14 packages
found in
Top 100
112 packages
found in
Top 1k
273 packages
found in
Top 10k
1.71k packages
in community
Next steps
Review the reported matches. If the warning refers to a placeholder credential value, it can be safely ignored.
Problem
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are structured addresses that point to locations and assets on the internet. URLs allow software developers to build complex applications that exchange data with servers that can be hosted in multiple geographical regions. URLs can commonly be found embedded in documentation, configuration files, source code and compiled binaries. URL paths provide additional information to a web service when making a request. They are an optional, but an important part of the URL, as they may define specific content or actions based on the data being passed. Some parameters they pass might be considered sensitive information. Since path components are not encrypted this might cause sensitive information to leak. This issue is raised for URL paths than might contain information that attackers can easily intercept. Examples of sensitive information fields include passwords and other similar parameters.Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
39 packages
found in
Top 100
249 packages
found in
Top 1k
1056 packages
found in
Top 10k
5.32k packages
in community
Next steps
Investigate reported detections.
If the software should not include these network references, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.
You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.
Consider removing all references to flagged network locations.
Problem
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are structured addresses that point to locations and assets on the internet. URLs allow software developers to build complex applications that exchange data with servers that can be hosted in multiple geographical regions. URLs can commonly be found embedded in documentation, configuration files, source code and compiled binaries. A port number is associated with a network address of a host, such as an IP address, and the type of network protocol used for communication. Within URLs, the ports are optional. Ports can be specified in a URL immediately following the domain name. Each network protocol, or schema, has a set of standard ports on which the service operates. This issue is raised when a mismatch between a network protocol and its expected port number is detected. While the presence of non-standard ports does not imply malicious intent, all of their uses in a software package should be documented and approved.Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
79 packages
found in
Top 100
560 packages
found in
Top 1k
2912 packages
found in
Top 10k
17.75k packages
in community
Next steps
Investigate reported detections.
If the software should not include these network references, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.
You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.
Consider changing the port to one that is standard for the networking protocol.
Top behaviors
Enumerates an environment variable that holds an Amazon Web Services (AWS) session token.
search
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
7 packages
found in
Top 100
47 packages
found in
Top 1k
89 packages
found in
Top 10k
494 packages
in community
Might contain potentially obfuscated code or data.
anomaly
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
84 packages
found in
Top 100
679 packages
found in
Top 1k
4393 packages
found in
Top 10k
30.42k packages
in community
Encrypts data using RSA with a given public key.
packer
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
25 packages
found in
Top 100
203 packages
found in
Top 1k
712 packages
found in
Top 10k
3.46k packages
in community
Encrypts data using RC4 cipher.
packer
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
11 packages
found in
Top 100
90 packages
found in
Top 1k
222 packages
found in
Top 10k
952 packages
in community
Encrypts data using Data Encryption Standard (DES).
packer
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
35 packages
found in
Top 100
221 packages
found in
Top 1k
980 packages
found in
Top 10k
4.44k packages
in community
Top vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Exploitation Lifecycle
(5 Active Vulnerabilities)
4 (4 Fixable)
CVE-2025-27597h
CVE-2024-52810m
CVE-2024-52809m
1 (0 Fixable)
CVE-2025-57665m
None
None
Exploits Unknown
Exploits Exist
Exploited by Malware
Patching Mandated