{"id":3557,"date":"2026-03-27T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/?page_id=3557"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:57:00","slug":"open-vsx-bug-let-malicious-vs-code-extensions-bypass-pre-publish-security-checks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/?page_id=3557","title":{"rendered":"Open VSX Bug Let Malicious VS Code Extensions Bypass Pre-Publish Security Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3558,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3557","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"kubio_ai_page_context":{"short_desc":"","purpose":"general"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}