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CVE-2017-16088
The safe-eval module describes itself as a safer version of eval. By accessing the object constructors, un-sanitized user input can access…
- 10.0CriticalCVSS base score
- 3.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The safe-eval module describes itself as a safer version of eval. By accessing the object constructors, un-sanitized user input can access the entire standard library and effectively break out of the sandbox.
Timeline
ID reserved
By hackerone
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical10.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 10.0.
Affected products
HackerOne · safe-eval node module
- affected All versions
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmsafe-evalGHSA-ww6v-677g-p656 (opens in a new tab)
References
3
- https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/issues/59 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/hacksparrow/safe-eval/issues/5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/337 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-0337 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-ww6v-677g-p656 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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