{"id":"CVE-2025-8217","aliases":["EUVD-2025-23144","GHSA-7g7f-ff96-5gcw"],"status":"published","title":"Inert Malicious script injected into Amazon Q Developer Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Extension","description":"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.\n\n\n\nTo mitigate this issue, users should upgrade to version v1.85.0. All installations of v1.84.0 should be removed from use.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":5.1,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Amber","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.00235,"percentile":0.14584,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-506"],"published":"2025-07-30T00:34:06Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:31:00Z","products":[{"vendor":"amazon","product":"q developer vs code extension"}],"references":[{"url":"https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2025-015/","tags":["vendor-advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-vscode/security/advisories/GHSA-7g7f-ff96-5gcw","tags":["third-party-advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-vscode/releases/tag/amazonq%2Fv1.85.0","tags":["patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/8xxx/CVE-2025-8217.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8217","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2025-8217","title":"Inert Malicious script injected into Amazon Q Developer Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Extension","description":"The Amazon Q Developer Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension v1.84.0 contains inert, injected code designed to call the Q Developer CLI. 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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.\n\n\n\nTo mitigate this issue, users should upgrade to version v1.85.0. All installations of v1.84.0 should be removed from use.","status":"published","published":"2025-07-30T00:34:06Z","modified":"2025-10-14T17:54:42Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":5.1,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Amber","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T20:31:33.01309Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2025-8217","description":"The Amazon Q Developer Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension v1.84.0 contains inert, injected code designed to call the Q Developer CLI. 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