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CVE-2017-16088

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-610

Description

The safe-eval module describes itself as a safer version of eval. By accessing the object constructors, un-sanitized user input can access the entire standard library and effectively break out of the sandbox.

Affected products

• safe-eval: 0.0.0, 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.3.0

References

• https://github.com/hacksparrow/safe-eval/issues/5
• https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/issues/59
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/337
• https://github.com/hacksparrow/safe-eval/issues/5
• https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/issues/59
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/337

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