Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting org.webjars.npm:vm2 package, versions [3.11.3,3.11.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.62% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-20043638
  • published13 Oct 2026
  • disclosed17 Sept 2026
  • creditForrof

Introduced: 17 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-92938  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-693  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.webjars.npm:vm2 to version 3.11.7 or higher.

Overview

org.webjars.npm:vm2 is a sandbox that can run untrusted code with whitelisted Node's built-in modules.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure in the node:sqlite module exposure within the sandbox environment when certain builtins are permitted. An attacker can execute arbitrary native code with host process privileges by loading a malicious extension through DatabaseSync.loadExtension() after creating an in-memory DatabaseSync instance with extension loading enabled.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1