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#5 SecurityWeek general August 21, 2026 at 12:26 UTC

Critical Isolated-vm Vulnerability Leads to RCE on Host

By Ionut Arghire

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A critical type confusion vulnerability in the isolated-vm Node.js library enables V8 sandbox escape and control-flow hijacking of the host process, leading to remote code execution. Developers using isolated-vm to sandbox untrusted JavaScript in server-side environments should patch immediately, as this bypasses the core isolation guarantee the library is designed to provide.

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