CVE-2026-120338 PUBLISHED

Prefab UI Pyodide sandbox escape to host RCE

Assigner: JFROG
Reserved: 01.11.2026 Published: 01.11.2026 Updated: 01.11.2026

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).

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 10

FastMCP server with GenerativeUI enabled, Deno installed, and no authentication configured

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.9

Authenticated client allowed to call tools on a server that executes untrusted code in the Generative UI sandbox

Product Status

Vendor PrefectHQ
Product prefab-ui
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.14.0 to 0.21.0 (excl.)

Credits

  • Yuval Moravchick finder
  • JFrog Security Research coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-693: Protection Mechanism Failure CWE
  • CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') CWE
  • CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management CWE