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vm2 Sandbox Escape vulnerability

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Apr 17, 2023 in patriksimek/vm2 • Updated Nov 4, 2023

Package

npm vm2 (npm)

Affected versions

< 3.9.17

Patched versions

3.9.17

Description

There exists a vulnerability in exception sanitization of vm2 for versions up to 3.9.16, 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.

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 3.9.17 of vm2.

Workarounds

None.

References

PoC - https://gist.github.com/leesh3288/381b230b04936dd4d74aaf90cc8bb244

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

  • Open an issue in VM2

Thanks to Xion (SeungHyun Lee) of KAIST Hacking Lab for disclosing this vulnerability.

References

@patriksimek patriksimek published to patriksimek/vm2 Apr 17, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 17, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 20, 2023
Reviewed Apr 20, 2023
Last updated Nov 4, 2023

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.236%
(62nd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-30547

GHSA ID

GHSA-ch3r-j5x3-6q2m

Source code

Credits

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