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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2021-28956 json

The unofficial vscode-sass-lint (aka Sass Lint) extension through 1.0.7 for Visual Studio Code allows attackers to execute arbitrary binari…

published 2021-03-22 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-15606

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The unofficial vscode-sass-lint (aka Sass Lint) extension through 1.0.7 for Visual Studio Code allows attackers to execute arbitrary binaries if the user opens a crafted workspace. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer

Patch / fix

Exploit prediction

1.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.