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vm2 3.10.0 through 3.11.7 Denial of Service via Host Promise

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source 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.

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CVE-2026-92954

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-92954

vm2

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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Structured affected-version data

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[
  {
    "vendor": "patriksimek",
    "product": "vm2",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.10.0",
        "lessThan": "3.11.8",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "3.11.8",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "packageURL": "pkg:npm/vm2",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-92954

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Publisher severity

critical

Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics

Event
#2367 · Revision 1
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