vm2 up to 3.9.16 handleException injection

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A vulnerability described as very critical has been identified in vm2 up to 3.9.16. Affected by this issue is the function handleException. Such manipulation leads to injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2023-30547. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in vm2 up to 3.9.16 and classified as very critical. Affected by this issue is the function handleException. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was presented 04/18/2023 as GHSA-ch3r-j5x3-6q2m. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-30547 since 04/12/2023. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/05/2023). This vulnerability is assigned to T1055 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 3.9.17 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 4b22e87b102d97d45d112a0931dba1aef7eea049 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Name

• vm2

Version

• 3.9.0
• 3.9.1
• 3.9.2
• 3.9.3
• 3.9.4
• 3.9.5
• 3.9.6
• 3.9.7
• 3.9.8
• 3.9.9
• 3.9.10
• 3.9.11
• 3.9.12
• 3.9.13
• 3.9.14
• 3.9.15
• 3.9.16

License

• open-source

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