What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-29658

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-03-31 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The unofficial vscode-rufo extension before 0.0.4 for Visual Studio Code allows attackers to execute arbitrary binaries if the user opens a crafted workspace folder.

Affected products

• Vscode-Rufo Project Vscode-Rufo: before 0.0.4 — fixed in 0.0.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Vscode-Rufo Project Vscode-Rufo 0.0.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/jnbt/vscode-rufo/commit/bc0d212436f76d12cbdab287802fa5bc743f818a
• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/jnbt.vscode-rufo/changelog
• https://vuln.ryotak.me/advisories/8
• https://github.com/jnbt/vscode-rufo/commit/bc0d212436f76d12cbdab287802fa5bc743f818a
• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/jnbt.vscode-rufo/changelog
• https://vuln.ryotak.me/advisories/8

Get alerted when CVE-2021-29658 or the next vulnerability affects your stack