{"id":11675,"date":"2026-03-28T07:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/open-vsx-bug-let-malicious-vs-code-html\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T07:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:03:28","slug":"open-vsx-bug-let-malicious-vs-code-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/open-vsx-bug-let-malicious-vs-code-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Open VSX Bug Let Malicious VS Code Extensions Bypass Pre-Publish Security Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Open VSX Bug Let Malicious VS Code Extensions Bypass Pre-Publish Security Checks<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched bug impacting Open VSX&#8217;s pre-publish scanning pipeline to cause the tool to allow a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension to pass the vetting process and go live in the registry.<br \/>\n&#8220;The pipeline had a single boolean return value that meant both &#8216;no scanners are configured&#8217; and &#8216;all scanners failed to run,'&#8221; Koi<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/open-vsx-bug-let-malicious-vs-code.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open VSX Bug Let Malicious VS Code Extensions Bypass Pre-Publish Security Checks Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched bug impacting Open VSX&#8217;s pre-publish scanning pipeline to cause the tool to allow a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension to pass the vetting process and go live in the registry. &#8220;The pipeline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-11675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}