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GHSA-mrgp-mrhc-5jrq: vm2 vulnerable to Sandbox Escape resulting in Remote Code Execution on host

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

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

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 28, 2022 in patriksimek/vm2 • Updated Sep 28, 2022

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