CVE-2026-24120 (GCVE-0-2026-24120)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-04 16:31 – Updated: 2026-06-30 12:06
VLAI
Title
vm2: Sandbox Breakout Through Promise Species
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
  • CWE-807 - Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision
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