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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-27083

Remote Development Extension for Visual Studio Code Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

HIGH 7.8EPSS 62.2%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 62.2%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Remote Development Extension for Visual Studio Code Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVSS 3.1
7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
62.16% probability · 99th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
microsoft/remote development
Source
secure@microsoft.com
EPSS trend
0%33%65%26 October 2026: 62.16%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 62.2% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.