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CVE-2025-8217 affects Amazon Q Developer for Visual Studio Code extension version 1.84.0. According to the provided content, a threat actor used an inappropriately scoped GitHub token exposed through the project's CodeBuild configuration to commit malicious code into the extension's open-source repository, and that code was automatically included in a released extension build. The injected code was designed to invoke the Q Developer CLI when the extension launched inside the VS Code environment. However, the malicious payload contained a syntax error that prevented the intended API call to the Q Developer CLI from succeeding. The issue is therefore a supply-chain compromise of the extension release process resulting in inclusion of unauthorized, inert malicious code in the shipped VS Code extension.
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