CVE-2022-24783

Sandbox bypass leading to arbitrary code execution in Deno

State: Published
Severity: 10.0 Critical
Published: Mar 25, 2022
Updated: Apr 23, 2025
Reserved: Feb 10, 2022

Description

Deno is a runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. The versions of Deno between release 1.18.0 and 1.20.2 (inclusive) are vulnerable to an attack where a malicious actor controlling the code executed in a Deno runtime could bypass all permission checks and execute arbitrary shell code. This vulnerability does not affect users of Deno Deploy. The vulnerability has been patched in Deno 1.20.3. There is no workaround. All users are recommended to upgrade to 1.20.3 immediately.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	10.0 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
denodenoland	>= 1.18.0, < 1.20.3Affected

References

https://github.com/denoland/deno/security/advisories/GHSA-838h-jqp6-cf2f

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