CVE-2026-45482: high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio Code CoPilot Chat…
Microsoft Visual Studio Code CoPilot Chat Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.4epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 66% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory ('path traversal') in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Affected products
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio Code CoPilot Chat ExtensionRelated CVEs — Microsoft Visual Studio Code CoPilot Chat…
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-21518HIGHGitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code Security Feature Bypass VulnerabilityEPSS 1.5%CVE-2025-62222HIGHAgentic AI and Visual Studio Code Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityEPSS 0.8%CVE-2025-21264HIGHVisual Studio Code Security Feature Bypass VulnerabilityEPSS 0.8%CVE-2026-21523HIGHGitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityEPSS 0.8%CVE-2026-23653MEDIUMGitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code Information Disclosure VulnerabilityEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-65675HIGHCoPilot Chat Security Feature Bypass VulnerabilityEPSS 0.6%