Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-35454

High

Published: 06 April 2026

Published
06 April 2026
Modified
07 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0034 26.1th percentile
Risk Priority 55 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-35454 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.7 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 26.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A01:2025 Broken Access Control

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Code Extension Marketplace is an open-source alternative to the VS Code Marketplace. Prior to 2.4.2, Zip Slip vulnerability in coder/code-marketplace allowed a malicious VSIX file to write arbitrary files outside the extension directory. ExtractZip passed raw zip entry names…

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to a callback that wrote files via filepath.Join with no boundary check; filepath.Join resolved .. components but did not prevent the result from escaping the base path. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.4.2.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

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 →
T1505.003 Web Shell Persistence
Adversaries may backdoor web servers with web shells to establish persistent access to systems.
attack.mitre.org →
Why these techniques?

Path traversal in VSIX extraction enables arbitrary file write on a public-facing marketplace server, directly facilitating initial access via T1190 and web shell deployment via T1505.003.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References