Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-120779 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-120779 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-120779?
- Critical severity, with a CVSS score of 9.6, published 10 November 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Microsoft Visual Studio Code.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-120779?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-120779 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-120779?
- Check whether you run Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is an improper control of code generation (CWE-94) in Visual Studio Code that permits code injection via network-based attack. The flaw allows an unauthorized attacker to execute arbitrary code without prior authentication, potentially during extension installation, dependency resolution, or remote development workflows. If exploited, an attacker gains execution context within the VS Code process with the privileges of the user running the editor.
Affected products
- Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Timeline
- 2026-11-10: disclosed