CVE-2024-28185 (GCVE-0-2024-28185)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-18 14:31 – Updated: 2024-08-02 00:48
VLAI
Title
Judge0 vulnerable to Sandbox Escape via Symbolic Link
Summary
Judge0 is an open-source online code execution system. The application does not account for symlinks placed inside the sandbox directory, which can be leveraged by an attacker to write to arbitrary files and gain code execution outside of the sandbox. When executing a submission, Judge0 writes a `run_script` to the sandbox directory. The security issue is that an attacker can create a symbolic link (symlink) at the path `run_script` before this code is executed, resulting in the `f.write` writing to an arbitrary file on the unsandboxed system. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to overwrite scripts on the system and gain code execution outside of the sandbox.
Severity
10 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-04-23 18:57 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-61 - UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
  • CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7699 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
judge0 judge0 Affected: <= 1.13.0
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judge0 judge0 Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.13.0 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:judge0:judge0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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