Open VSX Bug Let Malicious VS Code Extensions Bypass Pre-Publish Security Checks

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched bug impacting Open VSX’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.
“The pipeline had a single boolean return value that meant both ‘no scanners are configured’ and ‘all scanners failed to run,'” Koi

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