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High · 8.6 CVE-2026-92954 EUVD-2026-81603GHSA-gjq8-xm47-88rcGHSA-mgj2-jqjq-q8gg

vm2 3.10.0 through 3.11.7 Denial of Service via Host Promise

Published Sep 17, 2026 · Updated Sep 26, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

vm2 is a sandbox library for running untrusted JavaScript in Node.js. In versions >= 3.10.0 and <= 3.11.7, Promises returned from the host realm into the sandbox are not marked as handled at the bridge boundary; only Promises created inside the sandbox are wrapped with a rejection-swallowing handler (lib/setup-sandbox.js), and the bridge only installs host-side rejection sanitizers when sandbox code calls .then/.catch/.finally. As a result, code running in the sandbox can invoke a host function that returns a rejected Promise (for example events.once() exposed via the NodeVM events builtin, or any embedder-provided Promise-returning API) and simply ignore the return value, leaving the host Promise unhandled so that Node.js's default unhandled-rejection behavior terminates the host process. This is an incomplete fix of GHSA-hw58-p9xv-2mjh. The issue is fixed in version 3.11.8.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
patriksimek vm2 3.10.0 – < 3.11.8 3.11.8

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm vm2 >= 3.10.0, < 3.11.8 3.11.8 GHSA-gjq8-xm47-88rc

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