Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-30547 - Unspecified vulnerability in VM2 Project VM2 0.1.0
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
vm2 is a sandbox that can run untrusted code with whitelisted Node's built-in modules. 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. This vulnerability was patched in the release of version `3.9.17` of `vm2`. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. Users are advised to upgrade.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 2 |
References
- https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/f3db4dee4d76b19869df05ba7880d638a880edd5
- https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/4b22e87b102d97d45d112a0931dba1aef7eea049
- https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/security/advisories/GHSA-ch3r-j5x3-6q2m
- https://gist.github.com/leesh3288/381b230b04936dd4d74aaf90cc8bb244