{
  "id": 2152655,
  "title": "Isolated-vm Flaw Lets Sandboxed JavaScript Escape to Host for Potential RCE",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/isolated-vm-flaw-lets-sandboxed-javascript-escape-to-host-for",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-20T13:48:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/isolated-vm-flaw-lets-sandboxed.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in isolated-vm, a popular open-source sandbox with more than 2,900 stars and 190 forks on GitHub, that could allow attackers to escape the confines of the isolated environment. The vulnerability (\"GHSA-864f-rcv7-6rh4\"), which has yet to be assigned a CVE identifier, impacts all versions of the library before and including 7.0.0.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}