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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

True, it’s a private (not local) IP. It could easily have connected to a remote system, as their proof-of-concept did.

This code execs cmd.exe and pipes output to and from a hardcoded IP. That’s pretty weird. What’s running on that IP? How does the extension know something is there?

It looks like VS Code has no review — human or automated — or enforced entitlement system that would have stopped this or at least had someone verify it was legit.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thing is, tons of code extensions have an RCE in one form or another, but they always hit a localhost, or configurable IP. How do there automated analysis did any difference ?
Tons of extensions summon the cmd to summon the language devtools, their automated analysis flagged tons of package and they infer millions of infeections from that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

infeections

Since I read this I can't stop picturing you as Peter Lorre lmao.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Damn now I noticed i did tons of mistake/types there ^^'.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Lol it was just one of those things where I read it in his voice for that word.