The JavaScript sandbox vm2 for Node.js was actually discontinued. Now an update closes a critical security vulnerability.

Sandbox escape vulnerability in vm2, used by nearly 900 NPM packages, allows attackers to bypass security protections and ...

A critical vm2 Node.js vulnerability (CVE-2026-22709, CVSS 9.8) allows sandbox escape via Promise handler bypass.

Several security vulnerabilities, some classified as high-risk, have been discovered in the popular JavaScript runtime environment Node.js. Updated versions, announced in mid-December, have now been ...

Node.js is a lean, fast, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications. Scalability, latency, and throughput are key performance indicators for ...

Dahl stated that while software engineers (SWEs) will continue to have important roles, the direct act of writing syntax line ...

Even with competition from newer runtimes Deno and Bun, Node.js remains the flagship JavaScript platform on the server. Server-side Node frameworks like Express, build-chain tools like Webpack, and a ...

Node.js has been the delight of San Francisco hackers for the past couple years now, but startups and indie developers aren’t the only ones using JavaScript on the server side. At Node Summit today, ...

Thousands of applications were broken on Tuesday after a programmer unpublished a critical module in npm, a package manager for widely-used JavaScript projects. Countless projects were left in limbo ...