GCVE-110-OSM-2026-13634

Advisory PublishedCVSS 9.6/10

Vulnetix · Advisory published October 15, 2026

DPRK Contagious Interview campaign using VS Code tasks.json. Executes a malicious payload through a runOn: folderOpen task or Git hooks when the project is opened. The payload file is .githooks/post-checkout. When the victim clones the repo, and opens it with VSCode the malicious tasks.json runs which triggers the post checkout git hook

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Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-506Embedded Malicious Code

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1

9.6/10

Critical · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
unknown		all (affected)	—

References

Malicious repository: https://github.com/6figuresdev/uche_TokenSol_challenge/blob/main/.githooks/post-checkout

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