Sandbox Breakout / Arbitrary Code Execution in safer-eval
Critical severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Sep 3, 2020
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 9, 2023
Description
Reviewed
Aug 31, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Sep 3, 2020
Last updated
Jan 9, 2023
All versions of
safer-eval
are vulnerable to Sandbox Escape leading to Remote Code Execution. It is possible to escape the sandbox by forcing exceptions recursively in the evaluated code. This may allow attacker to execute arbitrary code in the system.Recommendation
The package is not suited to receive arbitrary user input. Consider using an alternative package.
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