GHSA-5843-9mh5-hhgw: Duplicate Advisory: vm2 exposes host HTTPS credentials and TLS traffic through globalAgent
This advisory was withdrawn on Oct 1, 2026. The publisher no longer considers it a valid vulnerability.
Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-h85j-hv3c-qfgq. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description vm2 versions 3.11.3 through 3.11.6 expose the host process's real https.globalAgent to sandboxed code when a NodeVM is explicitly configured to allow require('https').
Published Sep 17, 2026 · Updated Oct 1, 2026
Affected packages
vm2
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Affected
- >= 3.11.3, <= 3.11.6
- Fixed in
- No patched version yet
- Check
npm ls vm2
Advisory details
From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).
Duplicate Advisory
This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-h85j-hv3c-qfgq. This link is maintained to preserve external references.
Original Description
vm2 versions 3.11.3 through 3.11.6 expose the host process's real https.globalAgent to sandboxed code when a NodeVM is explicitly configured to allow require('https'). The builtin loader wraps host modules in a read-only proxy, but method calls such as Agent.prototype.on() are forwarded to the underlying host object, so sandbox code can register a listener for the agent's 'free' event. When an unrelated host HTTPS request releases a pooled connection, the listener receives the live host request options and the host TLSSocket, allowing sandboxed code to read the host's Authorization header and private destination host/port, attach a data listener to the released socket and read subsequent host response bodies in plaintext, and issue attacker-chosen authenticated requests using the stolen credentials. The issue is fixed in 3.11.7.
References
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