Top issues
Detected presence of patch mandated vulnerabilities.
Causes risk: patch mandated vulnerabilities
vulnerabilities
Problem
Software composition analysis has identified a component with one or more known vulnerabilities. Available threat intelligence telemetry has confirmed that the reported vulnerabilities are actively being exploited by malicious actors. Regulatory body or a government agency has issued a patching mandate for all software components affected by the identified vulnerabilities.Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
12 packages
found in
Top 100
57 packages
found in
Top 1k
135 packages
found in
Top 10k
455 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 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
67 packages
found in
Top 100
548 packages
found in
Top 1k
3078 packages
found in
Top 10k
17.39k 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 malware-exploited vulnerabilities.
Causes risk: malware exploited vulnerabilities
vulnerabilities
Problem
Software composition analysis has identified a component with one or more known vulnerabilities. Available threat intelligence telemetry has confirmed that the reported vulnerabilities are actively being exploited by malicious actors. Malware code that propagates through these vulnerabilities has been created. This increases the chance of automated malware attacks affecting the software component users.Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
27 packages
found in
Top 100
164 packages
found in
Top 1k
531 packages
found in
Top 10k
2.18k 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 critical severity vulnerabilities.
Causes risk: critical 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 critical severity.Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
60 packages
found in
Top 100
453 packages
found in
Top 1k
2271 packages
found in
Top 10k
12.07k packages
in community
Next steps
Perform impact analysis for the reported CVEs.
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 Windows executable files that do not implement the DEP vulnerability mitigation protection.
Causes risk: baseline mitigations missing
hardening
Problem
Data Execution Prevention (DEP/NX) is a vulnerability mitigation option that prevents data from being interpreted as code anywhere within the application. This mitigation protects the application stack, heap and other memory data ranges. Executable files that fail to implement this mitigation expose the user to increased risks of malicious code injection.Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
10 packages
found in
Top 100
83 packages
found in
Top 1k
298 packages
found in
Top 10k
1.03k packages
in community
Next steps
It's highly recommended to enable this option for all software components used at security boundaries, or those that process user controlled inputs.
To enable this mitigation, refer to your programming language linker documentation.
In Microsoft VisualStudio, you can enable DEP mitigation by setting the linker option /NXCOMPAT to ON.
Top behaviors
Accesses system passwords.
steal
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
8 packages
found in
Top 100
17 packages
found in
Top 1k
29 packages
found in
Top 10k
88 packages
in community
Requests permission required to load or unload a device driver.
permissions
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
3 packages
found in
Top 100
9 packages
found in
Top 1k
24 packages
found in
Top 10k
72 packages
in community
Requests permission required to identify itself as a part of the trusted computer base.
permissions
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
3 packages
found in
Top 100
9 packages
found in
Top 1k
18 packages
found in
Top 10k
64 packages
in community
Requests permission required to create a computer account.
permissions
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
3 packages
found in
Top 100
9 packages
found in
Top 1k
18 packages
found in
Top 10k
61 packages
in community
Runs in the background as a system daemon.
stealth
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
2 packages
found in
Top 100
17 packages
found in
Top 1k
38 packages
found in
Top 10k
158 packages
in community
Top vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Exploitation Lifecycle
(86 Active Vulnerabilities)
62 (62 Fixable)
CVE-2016-0705c
CVE-2016-0799c
CVE-2016-2177c
24 (24 Fixable)
CVE-2016-2108c
CVE-2016-9841c
CVE-2016-9843c
4 (4 Fixable)
CVE-2014-0160h
CVE-2014-0224h
CVE-2014-0195m
1 (1 Fixable)
CVE-2014-0160h
Exploits Unknown
Exploits Exist
Exploited by Malware
Patching Mandated