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Critical bug in popular vm2 Node.js sandboxing library puts projects at risk

A critical vulnerability has been patched in vm2, a widely used library for the Node.js JavaScript runtime that allows untrusted code to be executed inside a sandbox within the same process as trusted application code. The flaw allows for a sandbox escape, which is as serious as it gets for a software component whose primary…