Critical severity - Sandbox Escape vulnerability in vm2 (package.json)

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• Package Manager: npm
• Vulnerable module: vm2
• Introduced through: juice-shop@12.3.0, juicy-chat-bot@0.6.6 and others

Detailed paths

• Introduced through: juice-shop@12.3.0 › juicy-chat-bot@0.6.6 › vm2@3.9.11

Overview

vm2 is a sandbox that can run untrusted code with whitelisted Node's built-in modules.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Sandbox Escape. There exists a vulnerability in source code transformer (exception sanitization logic), 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.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

• High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

• Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

Remediation

Upgrade vm2 to version 3.9.16 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Issue
• GitHub Release
• PoC
  
  SNYK-JS-VM2-5422057
  (CVE-2023-29199) vm2@3.9.11