CVE-2023-30547 Information

Description

vm2 is a sandbox that can run untrusted code with whitelisted Node’s built-in modules. There exists a vulnerability in exception sanitization of vm2 for versions up to 3.9.16 allowing attackers to raise an unsanitized host exception inside handleException() which can be used to escape the sandbox and run arbitrary code in host context. This vulnerability was patched in the release of version 3.9.17 of vm2. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. Users are advised to upgrade.

Reference

https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/f3db4dee4d76b19869df05ba7880d638a880edd5 https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/4b22e87b102d97d45d112a0931dba1aef7eea049 https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/security/advisories/GHSA-ch3r-j5x3-6q2m https://gist.github.com/leesh3288/381b230b04936dd4d74aaf90cc8bb244