CRITICAL: CVE-2026-24781 (CVSS 9.8) — multiple products
CVE: CVE-2026-24781
CVSS: 9.8 (3.1) — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: CRITICAL
Status: Critical advisory
Affected
_See vendor advisory_
Summary
vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to version 3.11.0, VM2 suffers from a sandbox breakout vulnerability through the inspect function. This allows 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 3.11.0.
Verified Sources
References
- https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/8d30d93213c1898b3e035298b89a814970dd1189
- https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/bdd3d15e57bc4ec5e70365cd79f7cb0256e5f88c
- https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/commit/fd266d084e0a3322d0f71ba2a8dc4c96cd030228
- https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/releases/tag/v3.11.0
- https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2/security/advisories/GHSA-v37h-5mfm-c47c
_Validated by the Lyrie Threat Intelligence Pipeline — 3 independent sources confirmed before publication. No speculation._
Lyrie Verdict
A vulnerability of this severity is exactly what Lyrie's anti-rogue-AI defense is built for: continuous, autonomous monitoring that doesn't wait for human reaction time.
Validated sources
- [1]NVD
- [2]GitHub Advisory
- [3]MITRE