VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2026-24781
Prior to version 3.11.0, VM2 suffers from a sandbox breakout vulnerability through the inspect function.
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.19%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.19%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to version 3.11.0, 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. This issue has been patched in version 3.11.0.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.19% probability · 66th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-94, CWE-693, CWE-653
- Affected
- vm2 project/vm2
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/8d30d93213c1898b3e035298b89a814970dd1189Patch
- https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/bdd3d15e57bc4ec5e70365cd79f7cb0256e5f88cPatch
- https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/fd266d084e0a3322d0f71ba2a8dc4c96cd030228Patch
- https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/releases/tag/v3.11.0Release Notes
- https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/security/advisories/GHSA-v37h-5mfm-c47cExploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26234
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36754
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-24781
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2466531
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-24781.json
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.