CVE-2023-29199 (GCVE-0-2023-29199)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-04-14 18:37
Modified
2025-02-06 18:45
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-913 - Improper Control of Dynamically-Managed Code Resources
Summary
There exists a vulnerability in source code transformer (exception sanitization logic) of vm2 for versions up to 3.9.15, allowing attackers to bypass `handleException()` and leak unsanitized host exceptions which can be used to escape the sandbox and run arbitrary code in host context. 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 `3.9.16` of `vm2`.
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patriksimek vm2 Version: < 3.9.16
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