Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-92954

CVE-2026-92954

patriksimek vm2 — vm2 3.10.0 through 3.11.7 Denial of Service via Host Promise

Description · from the CVE record

vm2 is a sandbox library for running untrusted JavaScript in Node.js. In versions >= 3.10.0 and <= 3.11.7, Promises returned from the host realm into the sandbox are not marked as handled at the bridge boundary; only Promises created inside the sandbox are wrapped with a rejection-swallowing handler (lib/setup-sandbox.js), and the bridge only installs host-side rejection sanitizers when sandbox code calls .then/.catch/.finally. As a result, code running in the sandbox can invoke a host function that returns a rejected Promise (for example events.once() exposed via the NodeVM events builtin, or any embedder-provided Promise-returning API) and simply ignore the return value, leaving the host Promise unhandled so that Node.js's default unhandled-rejection behavior terminates the host process. This is an incomplete fix of GHSA-hw58-p9xv-2mjh. The issue is fixed in version 3.11.8.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
vm23.10.0 – < 3.11.83.11.8CNA

Scores by source

VulnCheck (CNA)9.2CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
VulnCheck (CNA)8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

References

exploitgithub.com/patriksimek/vm2/security/advisories/GHSA-gjq8-xm47-88rcwriteupvulncheck.com/advisories/vm2-3.10.0-through-3.11.5-denial-of-service-via-host-promise