CVE-2026-120338
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Description
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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{
"id": "CVE-2026-120338",
"sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
"published": "2026-11-01T16:18:14.970",
"lastModified": "2026-11-01T16:18:14.970",
"vulnStatus": "Received",
"cveTags": [],
"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)."
}
],
"affected": [
{
"source": "[email protected]",
"affectedData": [
{
"vendor": "PrefectHQ",
"product": "prefab-ui",
"defaultStatus": "unaffected",
"collectionURL": "https://pypi.org/project/prefab-ui/",
"packageName": "prefab-ui",
"programFiles": [
"src/prefab_ui/sandbox/_pyodide.py",
"src/prefab_ui/sandbox/runner.js"
],
"repo": "git://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefab",
"versions": [
{
"version": "0.14.0",
"lessThan": "0.21.0",
"versionType": "semver",
"status": "affected"
}
]
}
]
}
],
"metrics": {
"cvssMetricV31": [
{
"source": "[email protected]",
"type": "Secondary",
"cvssData": {
"version": "3.1",
"vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"baseScore": 10.0,
"baseSeverity": "CRITICAL",
"attackVector": "NETWORK",
"attackComplexity": "LOW",
"privilegesRequired": "NONE",
"userInteraction": "NONE",
"scope": "CHANGED",
"confidentialityImpact": "HIGH",
"integrityImpact": "HIGH",
"availabilityImpact": "HIGH"
},
"exploitabilityScore": 3.9,
"impactScore": 6.0
}
]
},
"weaknesses": [
{
"source": "[email protected]",
"type": "Primary",
"description": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "CWE-94"
},
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "CWE-269"
},
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "CWE-693"
}
]
}
],
"references": [
{
"url": "https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefab",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefab/commit/030f074f85e0b1be0dd44b0283185aecb26337a2",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefab/pull/538",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefab/releases/tag/v0.14.0",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefab/releases/tag/v0.20.2",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefab/releases/tag/v0.21.0",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefab/security/advisories/GHSA-595q-jv4r-q7j9",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://pypi.org/project/prefab-ui/",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://pypi.org/project/prefab-ui/0.21.0/",
"source": "[email protected]"
}
]
}