{"id":80739,"date":"2026-06-18T18:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-44691-eclipse-theia-workspace-trust-bypass-via-malicious-task-definitions\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:35:25","slug":"cve-2026-44691-eclipse-theia-workspace-trust-bypass-via-malicious-task-definitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-44691-eclipse-theia-workspace-trust-bypass-via-malicious-task-definitions\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-44691 &#8211; Eclipse Theia Workspace Trust Bypass via Malicious Task Definitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-44691<\/p>\n<p>  Published : June 18, 2026, 2:35 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 7\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :In Eclipse Theia versions prior to 1.69.0, custom task definitions in workspace files (e.g. .theia\/tasks.json, .vscode\/tasks.json) could be executed without requiring workspace trust. An attacker could craft a malicious repository that, when cloned and opened in Theia, leads to execution of arbitrary commands with the user&#8217;s privileges. In combination with AI chat features and a workspace .theia\/settings.json that disabled tool confirmation, this could be triggered automatically by sending a message in the AI chat.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 8.4 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-44691 Published : June 18, 2026, 2:35 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 7\u00a0minutes ago Description :In Eclipse Theia versions prior to 1.69.0, custom task definitions in workspace files (e.g. .theia\/tasks.json, .vscode\/tasks.json) could be executed without requiring workspace trust. An attacker could craft a malicious repository that, when cloned and opened in Theia, leads to execution &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}