Bug 2536050 (CVE-2026-92939) - CVE-2026-92939 vm2: vm2 3.11.3 through 3.11.6 Native Code Execution via crypto.setEngine
Summary: CVE-2026-92939 vm2: vm2 3.11.3 through 3.11.6 Native Code Execution via crypt...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-92939
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-17 14:08 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-30 10:07 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 14:08:22 UTC
vm2 3.11.3 through 3.11.6 exposes the host Node.js crypto module to a NodeVM sandbox when the crypto builtin is allowed. The module is presented via a recursive read-only proxy, but its callable exports still execute with host-process authority. Sandboxed JavaScript can therefore call crypto.setEngine() with a filesystem path to an attacker-supplied native library (for example, one bundled in an untrusted plugin package already written to disk); OpenSSL asks the operating-system dynamic loader to load the file, and the library's constructor executes native code in the host process before engine-symbol validation rejects it. Exploitation requires only the crypto builtin and does not require fs, process, module, child_process, worker_threads, vm, or inspector access, resulting in a sandbox escape and arbitrary native code execution. Fixed in 3.11.7.


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