{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2026-120338", "assignerOrgId": "48a46f29-ae42-4e1d-90dd-c1676c1e5e6d", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "JFROG", "dateReserved": "2026-11-01T15:12:50.987Z", "datePublished": "2026-11-01T15:24:54.158Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-11-01T15:24:54.158Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "48a46f29-ae42-4e1d-90dd-c1676c1e5e6d", "shortName": "JFROG", "dateUpdated": "2026-11-01T15:24:54.158Z" }, "title": "Prefab UI Pyodide sandbox escape to host RCE", "problemTypes": [ { "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "cweId": "CWE-693", "description": "CWE-693: Protection Mechanism Failure", "type": "CWE" } ] }, { "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "cweId": "CWE-94", "description": "CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')", "type": "CWE" } ] }, { "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "cweId": "CWE-269", "description": "CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management", "type": "CWE" } ] } ], "affected": [ { "vendor": "PrefectHQ", "product": "prefab-ui", "collectionURL": "https://pypi.org/project/prefab-ui/", "packageName": "prefab-ui", "repo": "git://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefab", "programFiles": [ "src/prefab_ui/sandbox/_pyodide.py", "src/prefab_ui/sandbox/runner.js" ], "versions": [ { "status": "affected", "version": "0.14.0", "lessThan": "0.21.0", "versionType": "semver" } ], "defaultStatus": "unaffected" } ], "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "Prefab UI's Generative UI sandbox runs caller-supplied Python inside Pyodide, Python compiled to WebAssembly, in a Deno subprocess. The feature is documented as isolation for untrusted code, including LLM-written UI. From prefab-ui 0.14.0 through 0.20.2 the launcher starts Deno with unrestricted --allow-read, --allow-write, and --allow-net, and the runner leaves the Deno API on the JavaScript global object. Pyodide's js module proxies that global, so the Python can call Deno.readTextFileSync and Deno.writeTextFileSync. A caller who can supply the code can read and write files as the server OS user, and can persist code execution by writing a .pth file into the server virtualenv's site-packages. The usual remote path is FastMCP's GenerativeUI provider, which registers the MCP tool generate_prefab_ui and forwards that tool's code argument into this sandbox. On a FastMCP server with no authentication configured, any client who can reach the server can call the tool. With authentication, any client allowed to call tools can. Generative UI is opt-in, and the host must have Deno installed. Confirmed on prefab-ui 0.20.2. Fixed in 0.21.0: after the runtime and Prefab sources load, the runner revokes Deno read, write, and network permission before it accepts code, the process is started with --no-prompt so a permission request cannot grant them again, and bootstrap network access is limited to cdn.jsdelivr.net. The fix is commit 030f074 (pull request 538).", "supportingMedia": [ { "type": "text/html", "base64": false, "value": "

Prefab UI's Generative UI sandbox runs caller-supplied Python inside Pyodide, Python compiled to WebAssembly, in a Deno subprocess. The feature is documented as isolation for untrusted code, including LLM-written UI. From prefab-ui 0.14.0 through 0.20.2 the launcher starts Deno with unrestricted --allow-read, --allow-write, and --allow-net, and the runner leaves the Deno API on the JavaScript global object. Pyodide's js module proxies that global, so the Python can call Deno.readTextFileSync and Deno.writeTextFileSync. A caller who can supply the code can read and write files as the server OS user, and can persist code execution by writing a .pth file into the server virtualenv's site-packages. The usual remote path is FastMCP's GenerativeUI provider, which registers the MCP tool generate_prefab_ui and forwards that tool's code argument into this sandbox. On a FastMCP server with no authentication configured, any client who can reach the server can call the tool. With authentication, any client allowed to call tools can. Generative UI is opt-in, and the host must have Deno installed. Confirmed on prefab-ui 0.20.2. Fixed in 0.21.0: after the runtime and Prefab sources load, the runner revokes Deno read, write, and network permission before it accepts code, the process is started with --no-prompt so a permission request cannot grant them again, and bootstrap network access is limited to cdn.jsdelivr.net. The fix is commit 030f074 (pull request 538).

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