Is "Demo Time — Presentations & Demos in VS Code" on OpenVSX Registry Safe to Install?

Environment variable access detected

File system manipulation detected

Windows registry modification detected

System command execution detected

Cryptographic operations detected

Code obfuscation techniques detected

File download activity detected

Network communication detected

Persistence mechanism detected

When software generates predictable values in a context requiring unpredictability, it may be possible for an attacker to guess the next value that will be generated, and use this guess to impersonate another user or access sensitive information. As the Math.random() function relies on a weak pseudorandom number generator, this function should not be used for security-critical applications or for protecting sensitive data. In such context, a cryptographically strong pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG) should be used instead. For more information checkout the CWE-338 (https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/338.html) advisory.

The debugger statement can be placed anywhere in procedures to suspend execution. Using the debugger statement is similar to setting a breakpoint in the code. By definition such statement must absolutely be removed from the source code to prevent any unexpected behavior or added vulnerability to attacks in production. For more information checkout the CWE-489 (https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/489.html) advisory.

Environment configuration file path detected

Session storage and local storage are HTML 5 features which allow developers to easily store megabytes of data client-side, as opposed to the 4Kb cookies can accommodate. While useful to speed applications up on the client side, it can be dangerous to store sensitive information this way because the data is not encrypted by default and any script on the page may access it. This rule raises an issue when the localStorage and sessionStorage API's are used. For more information checkout the OWSAP A3:2017 (https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/2017/A3_2017-Sensitive_Data_Exposure.html) advisory.

Git credentials/configuration path detected

Sanitizing untrusted URLs is an important technique for preventing attacks such as request forgeries and malicious redirections. Often, this is done by checking that the host of a URL is in a set of allowed hosts. For more information checkout the CWE-20 (https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html) advisory.

Sockets are vulnerable in multiple ways: They enable a software to interact with the outside world. As this world is full of attackers it is necessary to check that they cannot receive sensitive information or inject dangerous input.The number of sockets is limited and can be exhausted. Which makes the application unresponsive to users who need additional sockets. In many cases there is no need to open a socket yourself. Use instead libraries and existing protocols For more information checkout the CWE-20 (https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html) advisory.

Arbitrary OS command injection vulnerabilities are more likely when a shell is spawned rather than a new process, indeed shell meta-chars can be used (when parameters are user-controlled for instance) to inject OS commands. For more information checkout the CWE-78 (https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html) advisory.

VSCode credentials/settings path detected

Hidden files are created automatically by many tools to save user-preferences, well-known examples are .profile, .bashrc, .bash_history or .git. To simplify the view these files are not displayed by default using operating system commands like ls. Outside of the user environment, hidden files are sensitive because they are used to store privacy-related information or even hard-coded secrets. For more information checkout the CWE-538 (https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/538.html) and OWASP A6:2017 (https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/2017/A6_2017-Security_Misconfiguration.html) advisory.

Same origin policy in browsers prevents, by default and for security-reasons, a javascript frontend to perform a cross-origin HTTP request to a resource that has a different origin (domain, protocol, or port) from its own. The requested target can append additional HTTP headers in response, called CORS, that act like directives for the browser and change the access control policy / relax the same origin policy. The Access-Control-Allow-Origin header should be set only for a trusted origin and for specific resources. For more information checkout the OWASP A6:2017 (https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/2017/A6_2017-Security_Misconfiguration.html) advisory.