isolated-vm has vulnerable CachedDataOptions in API

Description

If the untrusted v8 cached data is passed to the API through CachedDataOptions, the attackers can bypass the sandbox and run arbitrary code in the nodejs process. Version 4.3.7 changes the documentation to warn users that they should not accept cachedData payloads from a user.

Recommendation

Update the isolated-vm package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): <= 4.3.6
• Patched version(s): 4.3.7

References

• GHSA-2jjq-x548-rhpv
• CVE-2022-39266
• CWE-20
• CWE-287
• CWE-693
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6
• OWASP 2021-A7

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Tags:

npm

isolated-vm