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
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 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.
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. One or more embedded URLs were discovered to link to raw files hosted on GitHub. Attackers often abuse popular web services to host malicious payloads. Since code-sharing services URLs are typically allowed by security solutions, using them for payload delivery increases the odds that the malicious code will reach the user. While the presence of code-sharing service locations does not imply malicious intent, all of their uses in a software package should be documented and approved. An increasing number of software supply chain attacks in the open source space leverages the GitHub service to deliver malicious payloads.Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
79 packages
found in
Top 100
622 packages
found in
Top 1k
4233 packages
found in
Top 10k
29.36k 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 an alternative delivery mechanism for software packages.
Top behaviors
Modifies file/directory permissions.
permissions
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
67 packages
found in
Top 100
547 packages
found in
Top 1k
2891 packages
found in
Top 10k
14.99k packages
in community
Changes file ownership.
file
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
45 packages
found in
Top 100
315 packages
found in
Top 1k
1576 packages
found in
Top 10k
7.59k 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 RSA with a given private key.
packer
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
18 packages
found in
Top 100
120 packages
found in
Top 1k
506 packages
found in
Top 10k
2.56k packages
in community
Top vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Exploitation Lifecycle
(30 Active Vulnerabilities)
9 (7 Fixable)
CVE-2022-24433c
CVE-2022-37616c
CVE-2022-3517h
21 (19 Fixable)
CVE-2021-3918c
CVE-2021-44906c
CVE-2022-24066c
1 (1 Fixable)
CVE-2022-24785h
None
Exploits Unknown
Exploits Exist
Exploited by Malware
Patching Mandated