CVE-2026-44001: vm2 has a Sandbox Escape via Promise Constructor Unhandled Rejection (Process Crash DoS)

May 7, 2026

A sandbox escape vulnerability in vm2 v3.10.5 allows any sandboxed code to crash the host Node.js process via a single Promise constructor that triggers an unhandled rejection propagating to the host. The fix for CVE-2026-22709 (v3.10.2) only sanitized the onRejected callback in .then() and .catch() overrides and did not address the executor-to-unhandledRejection path.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-99p7-6v5w-7xg8
github.com/advisories/GHSA-hw58-p9xv-2mjh
github.com/patriksimek/vm2
github.com/patriksimek/vm2/releases/tag/v3.11.0
github.com/patriksimek/vm2/security/advisories/GHSA-hw58-p9xv-2mjh
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44001

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