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CVE-2025-62449: Microsoft Visual Studio Code CoPilot Chat Extension Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-11 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory ('path traversal') in Visual Studio Code CoPilot Chat Extension allows an authorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.

Affected products

• Microsoft Visual Studio Code CoPilot Chat Extension: before 0.32.0 — fixed in 0.32.0
• Microsoft Visual Studio Code CoPilot Chat Extension: from 0.27.0 before 0.32.5 — fixed in 0.32.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Microsoft Visual Studio Code CoPilot Chat Extension 0.32.0; Microsoft Visual Studio Code CoPilot Chat Extension 0.32.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-62449

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