GHSA-6jgm-4w45-vh8j: Duplicate Advisory: vm2 crypto builtin loads attacker native code through setEngine
This advisory was withdrawn on Oct 1, 2026.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Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-46pr-c5wc-xffx. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description vm2 3.11.3 through 3.11.6 exposes the host Node.js crypto module to a NodeVM sandbox when the crypto builtin is allowed.
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This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-46pr-c5wc-xffx. This link is maintained to preserve external references.
Original Description
vm2 3.11.3 through 3.11.6 exposes the host Node.js crypto module to a NodeVM sandbox when the crypto builtin is allowed. The module is presented via a recursive read-only proxy, but its callable exports still execute with host-process authority. Sandboxed JavaScript can therefore call crypto.setEngine() with a filesystem path to an attacker-supplied native library (for example, one bundled in an untrusted plugin package already written to disk); OpenSSL asks the operating-system dynamic loader to load the file, and the library's constructor executes native code in the host process before engine-symbol validation rejects it. Exploitation requires only the crypto builtin and does not require fs, process, module, child_process, worker_threads, vm, or inspector access, resulting in a sandbox escape and arbitrary native code execution. Fixed in 3.11.7.
References
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