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 Linux executable files that declare the stack as executable, making non-executable memory mitigations less effective.
Causes risk: baseline mitigations missing
hardening
Problem
The stack is a special program segment which is writable by design, and is commonly used to store function-specific data and execution context. Granting execution privileges to the stack segment reduces application security, because it makes it possible to execute arbitrary code stored on the stack. While many modern compilers will implement a non-executable stack by default, it can be unintentionally disabled or made explicitly executable in automatically generated or misconfigured compiler options.Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
2 packages
found in
Top 100
13 packages
found in
Top 1k
54 packages
found in
Top 10k
155 packages
in community
Next steps
Enable non-executable stack mitigation with the -z noexecstack parameter during compilation.
Top behaviors
Accesses/installs certificates.
settings
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
0 packages
found in
Top 100
3 packages
found in
Top 1k
5 packages
found in
Top 10k
17 packages
in community
Retrieves the name of the user associated with the process.
search
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
26 packages
found in
Top 100
136 packages
found in
Top 1k
330 packages
found in
Top 10k
1.5k packages
in community
Deletes the value of a registry key.
registry
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
12 packages
found in
Top 100
61 packages
found in
Top 1k
178 packages
found in
Top 10k
861 packages
in community
Deletes a registry key and its values.
registry
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
13 packages
found in
Top 100
49 packages
found in
Top 1k
157 packages
found in
Top 10k
749 packages
in community
Requests permission required to shut down a system.
permissions
Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
4 packages
found in
Top 100
14 packages
found in
Top 1k
40 packages
found in
Top 10k
354 packages
in community
Top vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Exploitation Lifecycle
(439 Active Vulnerabilities)
285 (285 Fixable)
CVE-2023-1529c
CVE-2024-0808c
CVE-2024-1283c
154 (153 Fixable)
CVE-2022-37434c
CVE-2025-10585c
CVE-2022-3075c
29 (29 Fixable)
CVE-2025-10585c
CVE-2022-3075c
CVE-2022-4135c
28 (28 Fixable)
CVE-2025-10585c
CVE-2022-3075c
CVE-2022-4135c
Exploits Unknown
Exploits Exist
Exploited by Malware
Patching Mandated