CVE-2024-28185

high-risk
Published 2024-04-18

Judge0 is an open-source online code execution system. The application does not account for symlinks placed inside the sandbox directory, which can be leveraged by an attacker to write to arbitrary files and gain code execution outside of the sandbox. When executing a submission, Judge0 writes a `run_script` to the sandbox directory. The security issue is that an attacker can create a symbolic link (symlink) at the path `run_script` before this code is executed, resulting in the `f.write` writing to an arbitrary file on the unsandboxed system. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to overwrite scripts on the system and gain code execution outside of the sandbox.

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65.0% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 35% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Fix available
Upgrade to: 846d5839026161bb299b7a35fd3b2afb107992fc, 846d5839026161bb299b7a35fd3b2afb107992fc
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CVSS 10.0/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity
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/ 100
high-risk
Severity 33/34 · Critical
Exploitability 19/34 · Moderate
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal