Sandbox Escaping Affecting safe-eval package, versions <0.4.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.28% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID npm:safe-eval:20170830
  • published 6 Sep 2017
  • disclosed 30 Aug 2017
  • credit Alessandro Nadalin

How to fix?

Upgrade safe-eval to version 0.4.0 or higher.

Overview

[safe-eval] is a version of eval, claiming to be safer.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Sandbox Escaping. User input is not sanitized before being passed on to the safeEval function. A malicious user could access the object constructors, allowing access to the standard library, then escaping the sandbox.

Proof of Concept:

var safeEval = require('safe-eval');
safeEval("this.constructor.constructor('return process')().exit()");

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