Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting vm2 package, versions >=3.9.6 <3.11.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.65% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-VM2-20043643
  • published22 Sept 2026
  • disclosed17 Sept 2026
  • creditthe-vibe-dev

Introduced: 17 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-92948  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-693  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vm2 to version 3.11.7 or higher.

Overview

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 requireImpl process. An attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript code outside the intended sandbox by supplying specially crafted arguments to the node:test.run() function, which are forwarded to the host Node.js process and allow execution in an unrestricted environment.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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version 3.1