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GHSA-v37h-5mfm-c47c VM2 Has Sandbox Breakout Through Inspect Function

CRITICAL Published 2026-05-05 Modified 2026-05-05 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-24781
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-693, CWE-94
Reviewed
2026-05-05

Affected packages

• npm vm2: < 3.11.0 → fixed in 3.11.0

Description

Summary VM2 suffers from a sandbox breakout vulnerability through the `inspect` function. This allows attackers to write code which can escape from the VM2 sandbox and execute arbitrary commands on the host system. Details The node `inspect` method allows to log details of objects. To get to the details, the implementation unwraps proxies. The unwrapped values can be extracted using the `this.seen` of the `stylize` function. This allows to get access to the internal proxy handler of VM2 which contains the sandbox object. Since the access to the handler is itself wrapped by a VM2 proxy, accessing the sandbox object in the proxy handler will result in a wrapped sandbox object given into the sandbox. This allows to write a wrapped host object to the wrapped sandbox object and read the raw host object from the raw sandbox object bypassing the proxy bridge. PoC ```js const obj = { subarray: Buffer.prototype.inspect, slice: Buffer.prototype.slice, hexSlice:()=>'', l:{__proto__: null} }; obj.slice(20, {showHidden: true, showProxy: true, depth: 10, stylize(a) { if (this.seen?.[1]?.objectWrapper) this.seen[1].objectWrapper().x = obj.slice; return a; }}); obj.l.x.constructor("return process")().mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('touch pwned'); ``` Impact Attackers can perform Remote Code Execution under the assumption that arbitrary code can be executed inside the context of a vm2 sandbox.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-24781 vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References