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Duplicate Advisory: vm2 crypto builtin loads attacker native code through setEngine

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## Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-46pr-c5wc-xffx. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ## Original Description vm2 3.11.3 through 3.11.6 exposes the host Node.js crypto module to a NodeVM sandbox when the crypto builtin is allowed. The module is presented via a recursive read-only proxy, but its callable exports still execute with host-process authority. Sandboxed JavaScript can therefore call crypto.setEngine() with a filesystem path to an attacker-supplied native library (for example, one bundled in an untrusted plugin package already written to disk); OpenSSL asks the operating-system dynamic loader to load the file, and the library's constructor executes native code in the host process before engine-symbol validation rejects it. Exploitation requires only the crypto builtin and does not require fs, process, module, child_process, worker_threads, vm, or inspector access, resulting in a sandbox escape and arbitrary native code execution. Fixed in 3.11.7.

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GHSA-6jgm-4w45-vh8j

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Source reference: osv:GHSA-6jgm-4w45-vh8j

vm2

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    "ranges": [
      {
        "type": "SEMVER",
        "events": [
          {
            "introduced": "3.11.3"
          },
          {
            "last_affected": "3.11.6"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "package": {
      "name": "vm2",
      "purl": "pkg:npm/vm2",
      "ecosystem": "npm"
    },
    "database_specific": {
      "source": "https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/09/GHSA-6jgm-4w45-vh8j/GHSA-6jgm-4w45-vh8j.json"
    }
  }
]

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critical

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