Sandbox Bypass Affecting vm2 package, versions <3.9.11


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    2.31% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-VM2-3018201
  • published 7 Sep 2022
  • disclosed 7 Sep 2022
  • credit Oxeye

How to fix?

Upgrade vm2 to version 3.9.11 or higher.

Overview

vm2 is a sandbox that can run untrusted code with whitelisted Node's built-in modules.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Sandbox Bypass via indirect access to host.Object during preparation of stacktraces, which can lead to execution of arbitrary code on the host machine.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

9.9 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

10 critical