vm2: Sandbox Breakout Through Promise Species (patriksimek vm2)

CVE-2026-24120

CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 0.90 % · percentile 59 (2026-10-29)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-05-04 16:31 UTC
Updated: 2026-07-15 01:17 UTC
Assigner: GitHub_M
NVD status: Modified

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Description

vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to version 3.10.5, the fix for CVE-2023-37466 is insufficient and can be circumvented allowing attackers to write code which can escape from the VM2 sandbox and execute arbitrary commands on the host system. This issue has been patched in version 3.10.5.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-693 — Protection Mechanism Failure
CWE-94 — Improper Control of Generation of Code
CWE-807 — Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	redhat-SADP
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c (Secondary)

Advisories

GHSA-qvjj-29qf-hp7p — VM2 Has Sandbox Breakout Through Promise Species

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-26986
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-24120

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:vm2_project:vm2:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* < 3.10.5

Affected products

Product	Versions
patriksimek · vm2	affected < 3.10.5

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD

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