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GHSA-MRGP-MRHC-5JRQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-09-28 13:09 – Updated: 2022-09-28 13:09

Summary

vm2 vulnerable to Sandbox Escape resulting in Remote Code Execution on host

Details

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 3.9.11 of vm2

Workarounds

None.

References

Github Issue - https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/issues/467 The file that was patched - https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/blob/master/lib/setup-sandbox.js#L71 The commit with the patch - https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/d9a7f3cc995d3d861e1380eafb886cb3c5e2b873#diff-b1a515a627d820118e76d0e323fe2f0589ed50a1eacb490f6c3278fe3698f164

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in VM2

Severity

10.0 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2022-36067 (GCVE-0-2022-36067)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-06 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-22 17:24

Title

vm2 vulnerable to Sandbox Escape before v3.9.11

Summary

vm2 is a sandbox that can run untrusted code with whitelisted Node's built-in modules. In versions prior to version 3.9.11, a threat actor can bypass the sandbox protections to gain remote code execution rights on the host running the sandbox. This vulnerability was patched in the release of version 3.9.11 of vm2. There are no known workarounds.

Severity

10 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-22 15:37 UTC

CWE

CWE-913 - Improper Control of Dynamically-Managed Code Resources

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7690 records in the last 180 days details

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/security/advis…
https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/issues/467
https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/d9a7f3c…
https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/blob/master/li…
https://www.oxeye.io/blog/vm2-sandbreak-vulnerabi…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2022101…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
patriksimek	vm2	Affected: < 3.9.11

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