CVE-2023-29199

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-29199
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-04-14 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-04-25 15:14:00 UTC
DescriptionThere exists a vulnerability in source code transformer (exception sanitization logic) of vm2 for versions up to 3.9.15, allowing attackers to bypass `handleException()` and leak unsanitized host exceptions which can be used to escape the sandbox and run arbitrary code in host context. A threat actor can bypass the sandbox protections to gain remote code execution rights on the host running the sandbox. This vulnerability was patched in the release of version `3.9.16` of `vm2`.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-913

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Vm2 Project Vm2 All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Release 3.9.16 · patriksimek/vm2@24c724d · GitHub MISC github.com
Release 3.9.16 · patriksimek/vm2 · GitHub MISC github.com
Sandbox Escape in [email protected] · Issue #516 · patriksimek/vm2 · GitHub MISC github.com
Sandbox Escape · Advisory · patriksimek/vm2 · GitHub MISC github.com
Sandbox Escape in [email protected] · GitHub MISC gist.github.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 378431 vm2 NPM Package Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability (GHSA-xj72-wvfv-8985)

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