CVE-2021-28791 (GCVE-0-2021-28791)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-18 15:06 – Updated: 2024-08-03 21:55
VLAI?
Summary
The unofficial SwiftFormat extension before 1.3.7 for Visual Studio Code allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by constructing a malicious workspace with a crafted swiftformat.path configuration value that triggers execution upon opening the workspace.
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CWE
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