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Malicious VSCode extensions infect Windows with cryptominers
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this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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It seems so far Zed is cautious, providing api only for specific extensions - i.e. language servers and gui themes.
I run stuff from the command line using a trusted build tool (Mill, in scala), or via a local server (where js is sandboxed).
But indeed, a tricky language server or AI tool (I don't use yet) might inject code where I don't inspect before running it. That's a risk even with java-based IDEs - java has security permissions, not in js (vscode) or rust (zed), but are they applied...? As for audits, a problem with vscode is the marketplace got too big, so many extensions, many lookalikes, nobody can check them all...
well the language server plugins all run a binary language server out of sandbox so zed doesn't really do anything safer in particular there either. no ide has solutions, solutions don't really exist right now. it's not a problem of features of the language as much as it is features developers expect in extensions. I suppose there is a hypothetical "the extension wants to make this change to this file, approve" type flow like AI tools have now, but that sounds unpleasant to use. it still doesn't get around things like language servers being designed to run as standalone processes out of sandbox.
by audits I meant you individually go and read all the code of all the extensions you use. of course that's impossible too, but that was my point