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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-100723 EUVD-2026-87856GHSA-43rv-jrfh-9mrrGHSA-489w-w794-jq94

vm2 before 3.12.2 Memory Disclosure via zlib Buffer Pool

Published Sep 27, 2026 · Updated Oct 1, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

vm2 before 3.12.2 does not apply its Buffer backing-store ownership invariant (byteOffset === 0 and buffer.byteLength === length) to Buffers returned from host builtin modules. When an application explicitly exposes Node's zlib module through NodeVM's builtin allowlist (require: { builtin: ['zlib'] }), zlib.deflateSync can return a Buffer backed by Node's shared small-buffer pool whose .buffer is the entire pool. Untrusted guest code can construct a full-width view of that ArrayBuffer (Buffer.from(result.buffer, 0, result.buffer.byteLength)) to read and modify bytes belonging to unrelated host buffers, disclosing and corrupting host-realm memory across the sandbox boundary.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
patriksimek vm2 < 3.12.2 3.12.2

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm vm2 < 3.12.2 3.12.2 GHSA-489w-w794-jq94

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