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CRITICAL 10.0

GHSA-7pwq-q9jf-539h

kobako Sandbox Escape: guest eval reaches host RCE via method_missing → public_send (any bound Service)

Quick fix

GHSA-7pwq-q9jf-539h — kobako: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update kobako

Details

### Summary A guest mruby script running inside the Kobako sandbox can execute arbitrary Ruby in the host process, fully escaping the sandbox.

### Details A host embeds bound "Service" objects that guest scripts call across the wasm boundary through the transport dispatcher. The dispatcher passed the guest-supplied method name straight to `Object#public_send` on the bound object, with no restriction to the object's own methods:

```ruby target.public_send(method.to_sym, *args, **kwargs, &block) ```

`public_send` can invoke any public method, including Ruby's ambient reflection surface. A guest pivots through the public `send` into otherwise private Kernel methods: a dispatch request with `method = "send"` and `args = [:eval, "<ruby>"]` evaluates to `target.send(:eval, "<ruby>")`, running attacker-controlled Ruby in the host. Any bound Service object is sufficient — no Service-specific behavior is required.

### Proof of Concept A guest call equivalent to:

``` Service.send(:eval, "<arbitrary host ruby>") ```

executes in the host process and can read or modify host state, spawn processes, and so on.

### Impact Complete sandbox escape leading to remote code execution in the host process, defeating the gem's central guarantee of isolating untrusted mruby scripts. Any deployment that runs untrusted or attacker-influenced scripts is affected. All released versions (0.1.0 through 0.9.0) are vulnerable; the dispatcher carried the same unguarded `public_send` sink under three successive names (`registry` → `rpc` → `transport`).

### Patches Fixed in 0.9.1. The dispatcher now rejects any method whose resolved owner is a core/meta module (`BasicObject`, `Kernel`, `Object`, `Module`, `Class`), so only methods the bound object itself defines — or dynamically handles via `method_missing` — remain reachable. The ambient reflection methods (`send`, `__send__`, `public_send`, `instance_eval`, `instance_exec`, `method`, `instance_variable_get`, …) are all owned by those modules and are blocked.

### Workarounds None within the affected versions. Until you can upgrade, do not bind any host Service object into a sandbox that runs untrusted scripts. Upgrade to 0.9.1.

### References - GHSA-7pwq-q9jf-539h - Fix commit: 64f8470

### Credits Reported and fixed by Ahmed Al Hafoudh.

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Affected packages

RubyGems / kobako
Introduced in: 0.1.0 Fixed in: 0.9.1
Fix bundle update kobako

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