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VS Code 1.136.2 fixes Copilot Chat ADO token exfiltration

A malicious workspace could redirect Azure DevOps code search traffic and the user's bearer token to an attacker-controlled host.

Microsoft has fixed an information disclosure bug in Visual Studio Code that allowed a hostile workspace to steal a user's Azure DevOps access token via GitHub Copilot Chat.

CVE-2026-81381 describes the flaw: Copilot Chat's Azure DevOps code search integration sent the signed-in user's ADO bearer token to a configurable endpoint. A repository could ship workspace settings that overrode that endpoint and pointed it at an attacker-controlled server, so search requests (and the token) left the machine whenever the feature ran.

The fix ships in VS Code 1.136.2 and removes the workspace-controlled prototype override for the code search endpoint. Microsoft lists no workarounds; updating is the remediation.