Sandbox Breakout / Arbitrary Code Execution in localeval
Critical severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Sep 4, 2020
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 9, 2023
Description
Reviewed
Aug 31, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Sep 4, 2020
Last updated
Jan 9, 2023
All versions of
localeval
are vulnerable to Sandbox Escape leading to Remote Code Execution. The package fails to restrict access to the main context throughconstructor.constructor
. This may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code in the system. Evaluating the payloadreturns the contents of
process.env
.Recommendation
No fix is currently available. Consider using an alternative package until a fix is made available.
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