CVE-2026-24781

CRITICAL 9.8

vm2: Sandbox Breakout Through Inspect

CVSS Score

9.8

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

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.

CWE	CWE-94 CWE-693
Vendor	patriksimek
Product	vm2
Published	May 4, 2026
Last Updated	May 4, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Affected Versions

patriksimek / vm2

< 3.11.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

github.com: https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/security/advisories/GHSA-v37h-5mfm-c47c github.com: https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/8d30d93213c1898b3e035298b89a814970dd1189 github.com: https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/bdd3d15e57bc4ec5e70365cd79f7cb0256e5f88c github.com: https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/fd266d084e0a3322d0f71ba2a8dc4c96cd030228 github.com: https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/releases/tag/v3.11.0