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Sandbox Breakout / Arbitrary Code Execution in localeval

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 4, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm localeval (npm)

Affected versions

>= 0.0.0, < 15.3.0

Patched versions

15.3.0

Description

All versions of localeval are vulnerable to Sandbox Escape leading to Remote Code Execution. The package fails to restrict access to the main context through constructor.constructor. This may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code in the system. Evaluating the payload

constructor.constructor("return process.env")()

returns the contents of process.env.

Recommendation

No fix is currently available. Consider using an alternative package until a fix is made available.

References

Reviewed Aug 31, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 4, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Critical

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-mmqv-m45h-q2hp

Source code

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