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SCA: security update for vm2 (GHSA-m4wx-m65x-ghrr)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 442465

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to version 3.11.4, the fix for GHSA-8hg8-63c5-gwmx
 (CVE-2023-37903) introduced a check in nodevm.js line 263 that blocks the combination nesting: true +
 require: false. However, the check uses strict equality (options.require === false), which is trivially
 bypassed by omitting the require option entirely. When require is not specified, options.require is
 undefined, not false. The strict equality check fails, so the security guard is skipped. Immediately after
 (line 280), the destructuring default require: requireOpts = false assigns requireOpts = false, producing
 the exact configuration the patch was designed to prevent. This issue has been patched in version 3.11.4.
 (CVE-2026-47137)

Solution

Update the vm2 library and its related packages to version 3.11.4 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m4wx-m65x-ghrr

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 442465

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/29/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.36

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-47137

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/29/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-47137

cwe: CWE-913