Detections
Analytics

SCA: security update for vm2 (GHSA-gjq8-xm47-88rc)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 472986

Description

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

 - vm2 is a sandbox library for running untrusted JavaScript in Node.js. In versions >= 3.10.0 and <= 3.11.7,
 Promises returned from the host realm into the sandbox are not marked as handled at the bridge boundary;
 only Promises created inside the sandbox are wrapped with a rejection-swallowing handler (lib/setup-
 sandbox.js), and the bridge only installs host-side rejection sanitizers when sandbox code calls
 .then/.catch/.finally. As a result, code running in the sandbox can invoke a host function that returns a
 rejected Promise (for example events.once() exposed via the NodeVM events builtin, or any embedder-
 provided Promise-returning API) and simply ignore the return value, leaving the host Promise unhandled so
 that Node.js's default unhandled-rejection behavior terminates the host process. This is an incomplete fix
 of GHSA-hw58-p9xv-2mjh. The issue is fixed in version 3.11.8. (CVE-2026-92954)

Solution

Update the vm2 library and its related packages to version 3.11.8 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gjq8-xm47-88rc

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 472986

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/6/2026

Updated: 10/6/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 50.56

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-92954

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.2

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/17/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-92954