CVE-2021-28792

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The unofficial Swift Development Environment extension before 2.12.1 for Visual Studio Code allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by constructing a malicious workspace with a crafted sourcekit-lsp.serverPath, swift.languageServerPath, swift.path.sourcekite, swift.path.sourcekiteDockerMode, swift.path.swift_driver_bin, or swift.path.shell configuration value that triggers execution upon opening the workspace.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/vknabel/vscode-swift-development-environment/releases/tag/2.12.1Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
https://vuln.ryotak.me/advisories/14Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/vknabel/vscode-swift-development-environment/releases/tag/2.12.1Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
https://vuln.ryotak.me/advisories/14Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Mar 18, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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