[NEW] [critical] vm2: Multiple Vulnerabilities
An attacker can exploit multiple vulnerabilities in vm2 to bypass security measures, disclose information, manipulate data, perform a denial of service attack, and execute arbitrary code.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Multiple vulnerabilities in vm2 allow attackers to bypass security measures, disclose information, manipulate data, perform denial of service, and execute arbitrary code.
- Who is affected
- All vm2 deployments are affected; remote code execution is possible.
- Urgency
- Critical; arbitrary code execution via sandbox escape makes this immediately exploitable and highly dangerous.
- Action
- Update vm2 to a patched version or replace with a maintained security sandbox alternative immediately.
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Details
Original advisory: https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2026-2997
Recent advisories for vm2
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- critical[NEW] [critical] vm2: Multiple vulnerabilitiescert-bund · 2026-08-18
- criticalCVE-2026-47698: vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to 3.11.6, lib/bridge.js and lib/setup-san…nvd · 2026-08-17
- criticalCVE-2026-47686: vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to 3.11.6, handleException() in lib/setup-…nvd · 2026-08-17
- unknownCVE-2026-47683: vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to 3.11.6, the bufferAllocLimit enforcemen…nvd · 2026-08-17
- highGHSA-v836-6xw4-9cx3: vm2 has Memory Exhaustion DoS via bufferAllocLimit Bypassghsa · 2026-08-17
- criticalGHSA-m5w8-4gq2-6f8x: vm2: NodeVM `builtin: ['*']` exposes `os` and `dns` — process-wide observability reads AN…ghsa · 2026-08-17
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