About this tag
The cve-2026-102231 tag covers a Visual Studio Code security feature bypass documented in a Microsoft Security Response Center advisory. Rated Important with a CVSS base score of 7.7 and a temporal score of 6.7, the flaw involves how the editor handles path equivalence, allowing an unauthorized attacker to bypass a local security feature. The affected safeguard is Workspace Trust, the mechanism developers rely on when opening unfamiliar repositories so hostile scripts are not executed locally. Discussion here centers on the advisory details, the risk to developer workflows, and what the path-equivalence weakness means for anyone using VS Code to inspect untrusted code.
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    CVE-2026-102231: Visual Studio Code Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

    Developers rely on editor sandboxes and workspace boundaries to safely inspect unfamiliar code repositories without executing hostile scripts on their machines. According to the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) advisory for CVE-2026-102231, titled Visual Studio Code Security Feature...