Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions Affecting vm2 package, versions <3.9.17


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.24% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-VM2-5426093
  • published 18 Apr 2023
  • disclosed 17 Apr 2023
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade vm2 to version 3.9.17 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 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions due to allowing attackers to raise an unsanitized host exception inside handleException() which can be used to escape the sandbox and run arbitrary code in host context.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

10 critical