VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2026-43998

high
Published 2026-05-13 · Modified 2026-05-14
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CVSS v3
8.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.5

Description

vm2 has a NodeVM require.root bypass via symlink traversal that allows sandbox escape

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
90%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
npm npmvm2>=3.10.5,<3.11.03.11.0
npm NPMvm2= 3.10.53.11.0

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vm2_projectvm23.10.5

References

CWEs

CWE-59

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.