Medium severity · published Jun 18, 2026
CVE-2026-22551
In Eclipse Theia versions prior to 1.71.0, the AI chat rendered Markdown image tags from AI responses, triggering HTTP requests to arbitrary external URLs without restriction
6.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Eclipse Theia versions prior to 1.71.0, the AI chat rendered Markdown image tags from AI responses, triggering HTTP requests to arbitrary external URLs without restriction. Combined with prompt injection in a malicious workspace, an attacker could induce the AI agent to construct image URLs encoding sensitive information from the workspace or conversation context, exfiltrating it to attacker-controlled servers. The workspace trust enforcement introduced in v1.71.0 mitigates the documented attack chain by disabling AI features in untrusted workspaces.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 24% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ET
Eclipse Theia · Eclipse Foundation
before 1.71.0 · source: vendor
TH
Theia · Eclipse
before 1.71.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-22551
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-22551
Patch
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignment/-/work_items/115
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