vm2 before 3.12.2 does not apply its Buffer backing-store ownership invariant (byteOffset === 0 and buffer.byteLength === length) to Buffers returned from host builtin modules. When an application explicitly exposes Node's zlib module through NodeVM's builtin allowlist (require: { builtin: ['zlib'] }), zlib.deflateSync can return a Buffer backed by Node's shared small-buffer pool whose .buffer is the entire pool. Untrusted guest code can construct a full-width view of that ArrayBuffer (Buffer.from(result.buffer, 0, result.buffer.byteLength)) to read and modify bytes belonging to unrelated host buffers, disclosing and corrupting host-realm memory across the sandbox boundary.
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| Description | vm2 before 3.12.2 does not apply its Buffer backing-store ownership invariant (byteOffset === 0 and buffer.byteLength === length) to Buffers returned from host builtin modules. When an application explicitly exposes Node's zlib module through NodeVM's builtin allowlist (require: { builtin: ['zlib'] }), zlib.deflateSync can return a Buffer backed by Node's shared small-buffer pool whose .buffer is the entire pool. Untrusted guest code can construct a full-width view of that ArrayBuffer (Buffer.from(result.buffer, 0, result.buffer.byteLength)) to read and modify bytes belonging to unrelated host buffers, disclosing and corrupting host-realm memory across the sandbox boundary. | |
| Title | vm2 before 3.12.2 Memory Disclosure via zlib Buffer Pool | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-200 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published: 2026-09-27T01:28:30.027Z
Updated: 2026-10-01T18:04:57.414Z
Reserved: 2026-09-26T02:40:56.226Z
Link: CVE-2026-100723
Updated: 2026-10-01T18:04:12.914Z
Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-09-27T02:17:19.373
Modified: 2026-10-01T19:17:16.563
Link: CVE-2026-100723