Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-55319

HighRCE

Published: 12 September 2025

Published
12 September 2025
Modified
20 February 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0051 66.8th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-55319 is a high-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059); ranked in the top 33.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as AI Agent Protocols and Integrations; in the LLM/Generative AI Risks risk domain.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Ai command injection in Agentic AI and Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.

CWE(s)
CWE-77

AI Security AnalysisAI

AI Category
AI Agent Protocols and Integrations
Risk Domain
LLM/Generative AI Risks
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
None mapped
Classification Reason
Matched keywords: ai

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter Execution
Adversaries may abuse command and script interpreters to execute commands, scripts, or binaries.
attack.mitre.org →
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
attack.mitre.org →
T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement
Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.
attack.mitre.org →
Why these techniques?

AI command injection vulnerability enables unauthorized remote code execution over the network, facilitating command/script interpreter abuse (T1059), exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190), and exploitation of remote services (T1210).

Affected Assets

microsoft
visual studio code
≤ 1.104.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References