「Visual Studio Code」の開発環境において広く利用されている拡張機能「Live Server」に情報漏洩の脆弱性が明らかとなった。2025年8月に開発者へ報告されたが、その後も未修正の状態が続いているという。 「Live Server」は、ローカルでHTTPサーバを起動し、ファイル変更時にブラウザを自動更新する「Visual Studio Code」向けの拡張機能。

Critical vulnerabilities in four widely used VS Code extensions could enable file theft and remote code execution across 125M ...

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

Three of the four vulnerabilities remained unpatched months after OX Security reported them to the maintainers.

Check Point Software Technologiesは5月16日(米国時間)、「Malicious VSCode extensions with more than 45K downloads steal PII and enable backdoors - Check Point ...

Malicious Visual Studio Code extensions were discovered on the VSCode marketplace that download heavily obfuscated PowerShell payloads to target developers and cryptocurrency projects in supply chain ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. Recent reports have uncovered a series of malicious extensions ...

Visual Studio Code (VSCode) allows you to use extensions to make development more convenient. It has been reported that an extension that distributes ransomware has been published on the Visual Studio ...