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CVE-2026-19884: CWE-829 in Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Theia

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High
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-19884cvecve-2026-19884cwe-829cwe-15
Published: 08/14/2026 (08/14/2026, 15:32:38 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: Eclipse Foundation
Product: Eclipse Theia

Description

In Eclipse Theia versions up to and including 1.69.0, opening a folder starts source control integration without requiring the user to trust the folder first. This affects applications built on Theia that include the git integration, such as the Theia IDE. Both Theia's own `@theia/git` extension and the builtin VS Code `git` extension run git commands such as `git status` as soon as a repository is detected. Since git honors repository-local configuration, a folder containing an attacker-controlled `.git/config` with `core.fsmonitor` (or a comparable hook-like setting) causes the configured command to be executed. The configuration can be delivered by burying a bare repository inside a regular repository (OVE-20210718-0001), so cloning an attacker-supplied repository and opening it in a Theia-based application is sufficient to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user, without any confirmation prompt. As of 1.70.0, plugins that declare `capabilities.untrustedWorkspaces.supported: false`, which includes the builtin git extension, are no longer loaded or activated in an untrusted workspace, and the deprecated `@theia/git` extension has been removed, so no git command is executed against an untrusted folder.

CVSS v4.0

Score 8.4high

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Active
Vuln. Confidentiality
High
Vuln. Integrity
High
Vuln. Availability
High
Subsq. Confidentiality
None
Subsq. Integrity
None
Subsq. Availability
None
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
eclipse
Date Reserved
2026-08-14T15:09:42.140Z
Cvss Version
4.0
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a7f373bbf8831d5394a6b6a

Added to database: 08/14/2026, 15:41:47 UTC

Last updated: 08/14/2026, 15:41:47 UTC

Views: 1

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