CVE-2017-16088: Safe-Eval Project Safe-Eval

Critical severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Safe-Eval Project Safe-Eval: version 0.0.0 only; version 0.1.0 only; version 0.2.0 only; version 0.3.0 only

Published 2018-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.