CVE-2026-92947 — vm2 before 3.11.7 Memory Disclosure via Buffer Pool

Affected: patriksimek vm2

vm2 before 3.11.7 exposes Node's shared Buffer pool to sandboxed code, allowing disclosure of host memory used by Buffer.from, Buffer.concat, and related allocations. Sandboxed code can read and write to host-realm buffers by acquiring ArrayBuffers from small allocations, leading to sensitive data exposure and potential denial-of-service.

GHSA-fcqc-726x-5wfc — vm2: Sandboxed code can read and write host-realm memory via Node's shared Buffer pool

Affected: npm: vm2

### Summary Sandboxed code is able to disclose host memory used by small allocations by `Buffer.from`, `Buffer.concat`.

### Details vm2 exposes `Buffer` object to sandboxed code by default. Small [`Buffer` allocations](https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html#static-method-bufferallocunsafesize) (for example, [Buffer.allocUnsafe()](https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html#static-method-bufferallocunsafesize), [Buffer.from(array)](https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html#static-method-bufferfromarray), [Buffer.from(string)](https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html#static-method-bufferfromstring-encoding), and [Buffer.concat()](https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html#static-method-bufferconcatlist-totallength)) use the same Buffer pool, which is shared with the sandbox. This allows sandboxed code to disclose host memory used by the functions listed above.

### PoC Tested against `vm2@3.11.5` in the node REPL. ```javascript Buffer.from('host-memory-should-not-leak-to-sandbox') new (require('vm2').VM)().run(`Buffer.from(Buffer.from([0]).buffer, 0, Buffer.from([0]).buffer.byteLength).toString('ascii')`) ```

### Impact Since sandbox acquires an ArrayBuffer that is used by the host, it can disclose sensitive data going through functions mentioned above and even write to these buffers, which can lead to sensitive data exposure and potentially denial-o…

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CVE-2026-92947 — vm2 before 3.11.7 Memory Disclosure via Buffer Pool

GHSA-fcqc-726x-5wfc — vm2: Sandboxed code can read and write host-realm memory via Node's shared Buffer pool