CVE-2023-29199 Information

Description

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.

Reference

https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/releases/tag/3.9.16 https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/issues/516 https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/security/advisories/GHSA-xj72-wvfv-8985 https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/24c724daa7c09f003e556d7cd1c7a8381cb985d7 https://gist.github.com/leesh3288/f05730165799bf56d70391f3d9ea187c