Socket Releases Free Certified Patches for Critical vm2 Sandbox Escape

Socket is releasing free Certified Patches for a critical sandbox escape vulnerability in vm2, a JavaScript sandboxing library used to run untrusted code inside Node.js applications. The vulnerability, tracked as GHSA-ffh4-j6h5-pg66 and CVE-2026-26956, allows attacker-controlled JavaScript executed through VM.run() to escape the sandbox, access the host Node.js process object, and execute arbitrary operating system commands. The current GitHub advisory identifies vm2 3.10.4 as affected and…