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CVE-2026-120338

Arbitrary Code Execution in Prefab Generative UI <0.21.0

CVSS 3.1
10.0 critical
EPSS
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Published
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Modified
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Prefab Generative UI runs caller-supplied Python code inside a Pyodide sandbox with unrestricted Deno permissions. Any client able to call the generate_prefab_ui tool can trigger it, including on unauthenticated FastMCP servers. An attacker gains full file read/write access as the server OS user and can persist execution by writing to the virtualenv. Affects Prefab UI versions 0.14.0 through 0.20.2 with Deno installed.

What to do: Upgrade to Prefab UI 0.21.0. No workaround available.

ProductAffectedFixed in
Prefab Generative UI0.14.0 through 0.20.20.21.0
Estimated exposure
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Description · NVD

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).

Weakness
CWE-94, CWE-269, CWE-693
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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