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CRITICAL 9.8

GHSA-whpj-8f3w-67p5

vm2 Sandbox Escape vulnerability

Details

A sandbox escape vulnerability exists in vm2 for versions up to 3.9.17. It abuses an unexpected creation of a host object based on the specification of `Proxy`.

### 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 `3.9.18` of `vm2`.

### Workarounds None.

### References PoC - https://gist.github.com/arkark/e9f5cf5782dec8321095be3e52acf5ac

### For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

- Open an issue in [VM2](https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2)

Thanks to @arkark (Takeshi Kaneko) of GMO Cybersecurity by Ierae, Inc. for disclosing this vulnerability.

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Affected packages

npm / vm2
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 3.9.18
Fix npm install vm2@3.9.18

References