What is GHSA-876r-hj45-fw7g?

GHSA-876r-hj45-fw7g is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. Sandbox Breakout / Arbitrary Code Execution in safer-eval

Why does GHSA-876r-hj45-fw7g have no CVE ID yet?

GitHub Security Advisories published this advisory directly to customers before NVD assigned a CVE ID. This is the embargo-window disclosure pattern — vendors notify customers on day 0; NVD's public record follows days to weeks later.

Which products are affected by GHSA-876r-hj45-fw7g?

GHSA-876r-hj45-fw7g affects 1 product, including: npm/safer-eval:\u003e= 0.0.0.

GHSA-876r-hj45-fw7gCriticalDisclosed before NVD

Sandbox Breakout / Arbitrary Code Execution in safer-eval

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 3, 2020

Last Modified

January 9, 2023

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products1

npm/safer-eval:>= 0.0.0

🔗 References (3)

https://gist.github.com/JLLeitschuh/609bb2efaff22ed84fe182cf574c023a
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1221
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-876r-hj45-fw7g