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vm2 vulnerable to sandbox escape

GHSA-7jxr-cg7f-gpgv · CVE-2023-29017

Published · Modified

Description

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.

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