Security controls bypass or absence In realms-shim

Description

Sandbox Breakout in realms-shim Versions of realms-shim prior to 1.2.1 are vulnerable to a Sandbox Breakout. The Realms evaluation function has an option to apply Babel-like transformations to the source code before it reaches the evaluator. One portion of this transform pipeline exposed a primal-Realm object to the rewriting function. Confined code which used the evaluator itself could provide a malicious rewriter function that captured this object, and use it to breach the sandbox.

Recommendation

Upgrade to version 1.2.1 or later.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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