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CVE-2026-24781

patriksimek vm2 — vm2: Sandbox Breakout Through Inspect

EPSS 1%public exploitCVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
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CVSS 9.8 (CNA)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 67.9.679 × 2013.6Exploit: SSVC poc+1010.0SSVC exploitation: poc+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

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.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
vm2< 3.11.0–CNA
Red Hat Developer Hub 1.10see advisory1783448184redhat-SADP
Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9see advisory1781187342redhat-SADP
Red Hat Developer Hubsee advisory–redhat-SADP

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
redhat-SADP (CNA)8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/patriksimek/vm2/security/advisories/GHSA-v37h-5mfm-c47crefgithub.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/8d30d93213c1898b3e035298b89a814970dd1189refgithub.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/bdd3d15e57bc4ec5e70365cd79f7cb0256e5f88crefgithub.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/fd266d084e0a3322d0f71ba2a8dc4c96cd030228refgithub.com/patriksimek/vm2/releases/tag/v3.11.0refaccess.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-24781refbugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2466531refsecurity.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-24781.jsonadvisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36754advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26234