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Sandbox Breakout in realms-shim

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 16, 2019 in Agoric/realms-shim • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm realms-shim (npm)

Affected versions

< 1.2.1

Patched versions

1.2.1

Description

Versions of realms-shim prior to 1.2.1 are vulnerable to a Sandbox Breakout. The Realms evaluation function has an option to apply Babel-like transformations to the source code before it reaches the evaluator. One portion of this transform pipeline exposed a primal-Realm object to the rewriting function. Confined code which used the evaluator itself could provide a malicious rewriter function that captured this object, and use it to breach the sandbox.

Recommendation

Upgrade to version 1.2.1 or later.

References

@warner warner published to Agoric/realms-shim Oct 16, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 21, 2019
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-7cg8-pq9v-x98q

Source code

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