GHSA-7jxr-cg7f-gpgv

vm2 vulnerable to sandbox escape

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2023-29017

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	vm2	< 3.9.15	3.9.15

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

vm2 was not properly handling host objects passed to `Error.prepareStackTrace` in case of unhandled async errors. - vm2 version: ~3.9.14 - Node version: 18.15.0, 19.8.1, 17.9.1 ### Impact A threat actor can bypass the sandbox protections to gain remote code execution rights on the host running the sandbox. ### Patches This vulnerability was patched in the release of version `3.9.15` of `vm2`. ### Workarounds None.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/security/advisories/GHSA-7jxr-cg7f-gpgv web
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29017 advisory
https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/issues/515 web
https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/d534e5785f38307b70d3aac1945260a261a94d50 web
https://gist.github.com/seongil-wi/2a44e082001b959bfe304b62121fb76d web
https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2 package