Impact
The versions of Deno between release 1.18.0 and 1.20.2 (inclusive) are vulnerable to an attack where a malicious actor controlling the code executed in a Deno runtime could bypass permission checks and execute arbitrary shell code.
There is no evidence that this vulnerability has been exploited in the wild.
This vulnerability does not affect users of Deno Deploy.
Patches
The vulnerability has been patched in Deno 1.20.3.
Workarounds
There is no workaround. All users are recommended to upgrade to 1.20.3 immediately.