GHSA-vmmj-pfw7-fjwp: npm PraisonAI codeMode sandbox escape via Function constructor
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The published npm package praisonai exports a TypeScript built-in tool named codeMode. The package describes this tool as executing code in a sandboxed environment, marks its capability as sandbox: true, and registers it through the public tools facade.
The implementation does not create an isolation boundary. It applies a small regular-expression blocklist, sets process and require to undefined inside a plain JavaScript object, and then executes attacker-controlled code with the host process new Function constructor:
const fn = new Function('sandbox', `with (sandbox) { ${code} }`);
const result = fn(sandbox);
Because this runs in the host V8 context, code inside codeMode can use the JavaScript prototype chain to recover the real Function constructor:
({}).constructor.constructor('return process')()
From a normal CommonJS application script, the recovered process object exposes process.mainModule.require. That bypasses the explicit require('fs') and require('child_process') controls and allows host filesystem access and subprocess execution from code that was supposed to be sandboxed.
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