Remediation of Risk of Code Execution Via Remote Location In Javascript Sandbox Vm2
                     Remediation of Risk of Code Execution Via
 Remote  Location In Javascript Sandbox 
Vm2 
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So actually, friends and all our Techo geeks you all must have Listened to the  
most popular application i.e. The Java Script sandbox environment.
Yeah, you have heard it right. It’s the sandbox environment.
Vulnerability Enhancement in Javascript Sandbox Vm2 Due To Bug  
In It
The Javascript Sandbox environment was found thus having a bug in vm2 thus  
making it quite vulnerable as it’s giving the allowance to the malicious actors  
thus making the sandbox protection bypassed along with the possible remote  
code execution on the host device.
Vm2 which was having the possibility of making the downloads going to be in  
the count of more than four million downloads per week thus made the  
possible creation of a secure context in Node.js servers for running the  
untrusted code without making the server compromised.
Potential Impact Due To The Vulnerability
Getting Elevation Due To Use In Different Environment
The vulnerability was having the potential impact on the whole system, which was being  
rated with the maximum possible CVSS score of 10 thus giving the was elevated because the  
use of vm2 is made in the production as well as in the development environments.
Interesting Technique Usage in Making Discovery Of Security Flaw
The discovery of the security flaw was made by Oxeye Security researchers whose name are  
Gal Goldstein and Yuval Ostrovsky.
It was revealed by the Security team of Oxeye that they were making the Use of their
approach when evaluating the security of the software as the first step to analyze the  
security lapses which were found previously thus making the more in-depth discovery in the  
same software.
Better Grasping of the Attack Surface Availability In  
Java Script Sandbox Vm2
This provides us a greater help in the better grasping of the attack surface  
availability which might be leading to the bugs which were low-hanging bugs  
stemming from incomplete fixes.
While making the review of the bugs whose disclosure was made previously in  
the maintainers of the vm2 in which an interesting technique was noticed thus  
making the bug reporter being abused with the mechanism of error detection
which was present inside the Node.js for the Sandbox being escaped.
Presence of Channels Between The Sand Boxes And Hosts
Likely several previous bugs were found in existence in VM2 in which there  
were many of the new bugs were found relying on the usage of the sandbox  
for making communication with the machine of a host. In this case, the bug  
was caused by a handling of the exception improperly.
The bug which was found relies on a technique that is quite common in the by-  
passing world of VM which is taken in used for finding the elements within the  
sandbox that can make the cooperation with the elements outside of it as said
by the researchers.
This connection, when found can allow the attacker to make an interaction  
with the process of hosting process.
The allowance to make an arbitrary to be run on the Node.js server is given by
this channel along with the invoking functions being included that make the  
system commands being made to run.
The aim of the team is finally to make release an in-depth technical review of  
the bug in a detailed format soon. The only way to make the prevention of  
exploitation is to make the upgradation to the newest version of vm2.
We were not surprised by the fact that this use of the library is made in the  
production environments which was mainly because it is going to have the  
downloads of over 16 million downloads per month as per the saying of the  
researchers that We are going to be in the process of responsible disclosure  
with several companies where this vulnerability is found in it by us.
Release Of List Of Services Made By Redhat In Separate Advisory
In a separate advisory, the release of the list of services was made by RedHat  
which was being affected by the flaw of the vm2.
This has not been the occurrence made for the first time that the patching of  
the sandbox bypass has been made for the first time by vm2 which has only  
made highlighted the difficulties thus making the secured sandbox  
environments.
Sandboxes in general are being thus taken into use for running the untrusted  
codes within an application. This means that an automatic assumption should  
not be made by you by default making them be assumed as safe as per the  
sayings of the researchers.
If the use of a sandbox becomes unavoidable the recommendation is given to  
make the separation of the logical and sensitive part of the application from  
the microservice which make the running of the sandbox code enabled if a
threat actor can make a successful breakout from the sandbox as the limitation  
of the attack surface is made to the isolation of the microservices.”
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