Vulnerability · Published Sep 17, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

CVE-2026-92936vm2 3.11.0 before 3.11.7 Information Disclosure via Error Stack

Medium 5.8

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in vm2 from patriksimek. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 40% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.8Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 60.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

vm2 versions 3.11.0 through 3.11.6 leak absolute host filesystem paths to sandboxed code through error stack formatting. Attacker-supplied code can force the host-realm source transformer to throw a SyntaxError (for example by calling eval with malformed source) and then read the error's .stack property; the bridge forwards the .stack read to the host-realm formatter, bypassing the sandbox-side host-path redaction introduced for GHSA-v27g-jcqj-v8rw. The returned stack string discloses absolute paths from vm2, Node.js internals, and the embedding application's own source tree, along with host function names. Default new VM() and new NodeVM() configurations are affected without any special options, and the issue persists when string eval is disabled because the host-side transformer throws before eval is handled. The impact is information disclosure only; no code execution results. Fixed in vm2 3.11.7.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
npmvm23.11.7GHSA-x6m4-chr9-cg97

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
patriksimek vm2 3.11.0 – before 3.11.7

Weakness: CWE-209 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

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