CVE-2026-44004: VM2 Project VM2

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

vm2 is an open source vm/sandbox for Node.js. Prior to 3.11.0, sandboxed code can call Buffer.alloc() with an arbitrary size to allocate memory directly on the host heap. Because Buffer.alloc is a synchronous C++ native call, vm2's timeout option cannot interrupt it. A single request can exhaust host memory and crash the process with a FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.11.0.

Affected products

• VM2 Project VM2: before 3.11.0 (fixed in 3.11.0)

Published 2026-05-13. Last modified 2026-08-06.