Race Condition Affecting nodejs package, versions [0,]
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-NODEJS-14928526
- published14 Jan 2026
- disclosed13 Jan 2026
- creditNikita Skovoroda
Introduced: 13 Jan 2026
CVE-2025-55131 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition in the vm module with the timeout option. An attacker can access secrets like tokens or passwords to leak or cause data corruption by exploiting a race condition in buffer allocation logic that allows zero-fill toggle to remain disabled when vm module timeouts interrupt execution.