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Security checkMarch 10, 2026

OneUptime has Synthetic Monitor RCE via exposed Playwright browser object

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Description

OneUptime Synthetic Monitors allow a low-privileged authenticated project user to execute arbitrary commands on the oneuptime-probe server/container.

The root cause is that untrusted Synthetic Monitor code is executed inside Node’s vm while live host-realm Playwright browser and page objects are exposed to it.

Recommendation

Update the @oneuptime/common package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): < 10.0.21
  • Patched version(s): 10.0.21

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