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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2026-24120 json

vm2: Sandbox Breakout Through Promise Species

published 2026-05-04 6 mo ago modified 2026-10-25 14 d ago also EUVD-2026-26986 , GHSA-qvjj-29qf-hp7p

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to version 3.10.5, the fix for CVE-2023-37466 is insufficient and can be circumvented allowing attackers to write code which can escape from the VM2 sandbox and execute arbitrary commands on the host system. This issue has been patched in version 3.10.5.

Patch / fix

  • npm vm2 3.10.5
  • vm2_project vm2 3.10.5

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-24120 updated cvss 9.1

vm2: vm2: Arbitrary code execution due to sandbox escape vulnerability

  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 Red Hat Self-service automation portal 2 ansible-automation-platform/automation-portal
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
6 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/security/advisories/GHSA-qvjj-29qf-hp7p referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADP 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm vm2
<3.10.5
3.10.5

Affected products

  • patriksimek vm2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Developer Hub
  • Red Hat Self-service automation portal 2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code
  • CWE-807 Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.