{"id":19705,"date":"2026-03-27T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/open-vsx-bug-let-malicious-vs-code-extensions-bypass-pre-publish-security-checks-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"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-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/open-vsx-bug-let-malicious-vs-code-extensions-bypass-pre-publish-security-checks-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Open VSX Bug Let Malicious VS Code Extensions Bypass Pre-Publish Security Checks info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"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<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/open-vsx-bug-let-malicious-vs-code.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/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 to pass the vetting process and go live in the registry. &#8220;The pipeline had a single boolean return value that meant both &#8216;no scanners are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}