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2 vulnerabilities found for Q Developer VS Code Extension by Amazon
CVE-2025-8217 (GCVE-0-2025-8217)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-30 00:34 – Updated: 2025-10-14 17:54
VLAI?
Summary
The Amazon Q Developer Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension v1.84.0 contains inert, injected code designed to call the Q Developer CLI. The code executes when the extension is launched within the VS Code environment; however the injected code contains a syntax error which prevents it from making a successful API call to the Q Developer CLI.
To mitigate this issue, users should upgrade to version v1.85.0. All installations of v1.84.0 should be removed from use.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-506 - Embedded Malicious Code
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon | Q Developer VS Code Extension |
Affected:
1.84.0 , < 1.85.0
(semver)
Affected: sha256:47f7840ecab6312d2733e1274c513050405886c70f2037fb2f1e9099872b0464 (git) |
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CVE-2025-8217 (GCVE-0-2025-8217)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2025-07-30 00:34 – Updated: 2025-10-14 17:54
VLAI?
Summary
The Amazon Q Developer Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension v1.84.0 contains inert, injected code designed to call the Q Developer CLI. The code executes when the extension is launched within the VS Code environment; however the injected code contains a syntax error which prevents it from making a successful API call to the Q Developer CLI.
To mitigate this issue, users should upgrade to version v1.85.0. All installations of v1.84.0 should be removed from use.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-506 - Embedded Malicious Code
Assigner
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
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| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon | Q Developer VS Code Extension |
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1.84.0 , < 1.85.0
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