VulnerabilityDeferred

CVE-2026-47208

Prior to version 3.11.4, VM2 suffers from a sandbox breakout vulnerability.

CRITICAL 10.0EPSS 0.76%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.76%). 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 3.11.4, 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. This issue has been patched in version 3.11.4.

CVSS 3.1: 10.0 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 0.76% probability · 53th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-913
Source: security-advisories@github.com

References

https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/a462655009669c3124ee39498121651597529ea8
https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/releases/tag/v3.11.4
https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/security/advisories/GHSA-76w7-j9cq-rx2j
https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/security/advisories/GHSA-76w7-j9cq-rx2j

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.