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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2026-47137 json

vm2: GHSA-8hg8-63c5-gwmx patch bypass: nesting:true without explicit require still allows full RCE

published 2026-05-29 5 mo ago modified 2026-10-26 14 d ago also EUVD-2026-36443 , GHSA-m4wx-m65x-ghrr

cvss
10.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 32%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to version 3.11.4, the fix for GHSA-8hg8-63c5-gwmx (CVE-2023-37903) introduced a check in nodevm.js line 263 that blocks the combination nesting: true + require: false. However, the check uses strict equality (options.require === false), which is trivially bypassed by omitting the require option entirely. When require is not specified, options.require is undefined, not false. The strict equality check fails, so the security guard is skipped. Immediately after (line 280), the destructuring default require: requireOpts = false assigns requireOpts = false, producing the exact configuration the patch was designed to prevent. This issue has been patched in version 3.11.4.

Patch / fix

  • npm vm2 3.11.4
  • vm2_project vm2 3.11.4

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-2026-47137 updated cvss 4.1

vm2: vm2: Sandbox escape leading to arbitrary code execution via security bypass

  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 ansible-automation-platform/automation-portal 1785854226
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:50850
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 1782761244
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:33574
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1.10 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 1783448184
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:36754
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9 rhdh/rhdh-rhel9-operator 1782767215, rhdh/rhdh-operator-bundle 1782772967 Red Hat Developer Hub 1.10 rhdh/rhdh-rhel9-operator 1783447707, rhdh/rhdh-operator-bundle 1783453583, rhdh/rhdh-must-gather-rhel9 1783447888, rhdh/rhdh-rag-content-rhel9 1783446803
    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
4 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 10.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 10.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm vm2
<3.11.4
3.11.4

Affected products

  • patriksimek vm2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-913 Improper Control of Dynamically-Managed Code Resources

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.