CVE•Published 2022-02-09•Modified 2026-10-08•1 article on news•4 live references•NVD data

CVE-2022-21991Microsoft · Visual_studio_code

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

8.1

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 19% of all CVEs

Description

Visual Studio Code Remote Development Extension Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Timeline

Published 2022-02-09

Modified 2026-10-08

External references

NVD MITRE GitHub PoC VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2022-21991

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

Shodan · product

product:"Microsoft Visual Studio Code"

All exposed Microsoft Visual Studio Code instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.

Shodan · banner/body mention

http.html:"Visual Studio Code"

HTTP body or banner mentions "Visual Studio Code" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2022-21991

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2022-21991

Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.

grep.app

CVE-2022-21991

Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.

GitHub code

CVE-2022-21991

GitHub code search for direct mentions.

Google dork

"CVE-2022-21991" exploit -site:nvd.nist.gov

Write-ups and news, NVD excluded.

Known PoCs on GitHub (5)

CVE-2022-219915 repos

0xor0ne/awesome-listunknown

Cybersecurity oriented awesome list

★ 4,246·updated today

Zeyad-Azima/Offensive-Resourcesunknown

A Huge Learning Resources with Labs For Offensive Security Players

★ 1,176·updated 10mo ago

winmin/awesome-vm-escapeunknown

share some useful archives about vm and qemu escape exploit.

★ 618·updated 7mo ago

Jalexander798/JA_Tools-Cybersecurity-Resource-2unknown

★ 2·updated 1y ago

kolaarionvull/awesome-listunknown

Forked from https://github.com/0xor0ne/awesome-list.git

★ 1·updated 1y ago