CVE-2024-29021 is a critical sandbox escape vulnerability affecting Judge0, an open-source online code execution system, in versions prior to 1.13.1. This flaw, rated 9.0 CRITICAL, allows an attacker with sufficient API access to achieve unsandboxed code execution as root on the target machine through a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in the default configuration. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating high awareness. Organizations using affected Judge0 versions should upgrade immediately to mitigate the risk of host takeover.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Judge0 | Judge0 | <= 1.13.0CNA affected |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.4 Reddit, 1.2 Bluesky, 0.9 Mastodon, and 2.3 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.8 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.