CVE-2021-21413CWE-913

Misuse of `Reference` and other transferable APIs may lead to access to nodejs isolate

High · published March 30, 2021

CVSS v3.1
8.0
EPSS
1%
Percentile
53.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

isolated-vm is a library for nodejs which gives you access to v8's Isolate interface. Versions of isolated-vm before v4.0.0 have API pitfalls which may make it easy for implementers to expose supposed secure isolates to the permissions of the main nodejs isolate. Reference objects allow access to the underlying reference's full prototype chain. In an environment where the implementer has exposed a Reference instance to an attacker they would be able to use it to acquire a Reference to the nodejs context's Function object. Similar application-specific attacks could be possible by modifying the local prototype of other API objects. Access to NativeModule objects could allow an attacker to load and run native code from anywhere on the filesystem. If combined with, for example, a file upload API this would allow for arbitrary code execution. This is addressed in v4.0.0 through a series of related changes.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.0 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00719 · 53.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-913 · Improper Control of Dynamically-Managed Code Resources
Published
2021-03-30T22:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 MAR 22:25Z
    Misuse of `Reference` and other transferable APIs may lead to access to nodejs isolate
    cvelistv5