GHSA-hc6q-4vvg-jf79

Duplicate Advisory: vm2 CLI provides no sandbox isolation - host-realm require() is reachable from sandboxed scripts

Published

2026-09-17

Modified

2026-10-01

Sources

github-advisory

Summary

## Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-jxxv-8r27-vm4p. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ## Original Description vm2 before 3.11.7 contains a sandbox escape vulnerability in the CLI tool that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in the host Node.js process. Attackers can supply a malicious script file to the vm2 CLI that uses require(__filename) to re-execute itself in the host realm, bypassing sandbox isolation and accessing host modules like fs and child_process.

Affected packages

Remediation: No patched version is listed by GitHub.

References

• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hc6q-4vvg-jf79