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TI-2025-33480 Aliases CVE-2025-53536

Roo Code allows Potential Remote Code Execution via .vscode/settings.json

Priority LOW 39CWE-552Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-552.

Summary

Roo Code is an AI-powered autonomous coding agent. Prior to 3.22.6, if the victim had "Write" auto-approved, an attacker with the ability to submit prompts to the agent could write to VS Code settings files and trigger code execution. There were multiple ways to achieve that. One example is with the php.validate.executablePath setting which lets you set the path for the php executable for syntax validation. The attacker could have written the path to an arbitrary command there and then created a php file to trigger it. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.22.6.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00774 55th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Roo-Code (RooCodeInc): 3.22.6

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
RooCodeIncRoo-Codebefore 3.22.63.22.6Patch availableCNA
  • Roo-Code VendorRooCodeInc Affected before 3.22.6 Fixed in 3.22.6 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:roocode:roo_code:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 3.22.6VulnerableRooCodeInc
  • cpe:2.3:a:roocode:roo_code:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 3.22.6 Vulnerable ·RooCodeInc

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Roo-Code (RooCodeInc) Fixed in 3.22.6

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-53536

References

Patch 2

Advisory 1

  • TI-2026-73422 Auto-approve bypass in Roo-Code via glob and command substitution CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.7
  • TI-2026-73421 Auto-approve bypass in Roo-Code runs denied shell commands CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.7
  • TI-2026-73419 Auto-approve bypass in Roo-Code via redirect operator stripping CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.7
  • TI-2025-34186 Roo Code Lacks Line Break Validation in its Command Execution Tool CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
  • TI-2025-36158 Roo Code is vulnerable to command injection via GitHub actions workflow CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.9
  • TI-2026-23506 Roo Code's command auto-approval module contains a critical OS command injection… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
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Sources

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