Improper Privilege Management Affecting vm2 package, versions <3.11.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.57% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-VM2-20043911
  • published22 Sept 2026
  • disclosed17 Sept 2026
  • creditnasaa_0x, Tony5, Jace

Introduced: 17 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-92957  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (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 Improper Privilege Management in the require process. An attacker can execute arbitrary commands on the host system by bypassing the intended module restrictions and accessing process-spawning APIs.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1