cve-2025-53536
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-07 17:57
Modified
2025-07-08 13:31
Summary
Roo Code allows Potential Remote Code Execution via .vscode/settings.json
Impacted products
RooCodeIncRoo-Code
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