CVE-2023-30547
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 84.6%vm2 Sandbox Escape vulnerability
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](https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2) Thanks to [Xion](https://twitter.com/0x10n) (SeungHyun Lee) of [KAIST Hacking Lab](https://kaist-hacking.github.io/) for disclosing this vulnerability.
Affected packages (1)
- npm/vm2from 0, < 3.9.17
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-30547
- PATCHhttps://github.com/patriksimek/vm2
- WEBhttps://gist.github.com/leesh3288/381b230b04936dd4d74aaf90cc8bb244
- WEBhttps://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/4b22e87b102d97d45d112a0931dba1aef7eea049
- WEBhttps://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/f3db4dee4d76b19869df05ba7880d638a880edd5
- WEBhttps://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/releases/tag/3.9.17
- WEBhttps://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/security/advisories/GHSA-ch3r-j5x3-6q2m