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SCA: security update for vm2 (GHSA-cp6g-6699-wx9c)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 441435

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. In 3.10.5, NodeVM's require.root path restriction can be
 bypassed using filesystem symlinks, allowing sandboxed code to load modules from outside the allowed root
 directory in host context. Because path validation uses path.resolve() (which does not dereference
 symlinks) but module loading uses Node's native require() (which does), an attacker can load arbitrary
 host-realm modules and achieve remote code execution. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.11.0.
 (CVE-2026-43998)

Solution

Update the vm2 library and its related packages to version 3.11.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cp6g-6699-wx9c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 441435

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/7/2026

Updated: 6/1/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7

Percentile: 98.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-43998

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 7.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/7/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-43998

cwe: CWE-59