diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 486d5c2a16..fe07675eb9 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1303,9 +1303,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deno_core"
-version = "0.287.0"
+version = "0.288.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8659fd7969621bea436a6d214589120c1fe22483753e19b009b7110e987e0acf"
+checksum = "e569b7a3e463a9f3b111a4279afa06b6909f6ecdc27aeedd3c310a57184ac217"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "bincode",
@@ -1759,9 +1759,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deno_ops"
-version = "0.163.0"
+version = "0.164.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "bdc9fd52e5fca85a834cc040ae1c6c675d8b718db5e14bbbf76996486dcc17fa"
+checksum = "748c200b559272ba65d98c25fc38e789901c847c41273e0232cc0df4cf6cad8b"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro-rules",
  "proc-macro2",
@@ -5763,9 +5763,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_v8"
-version = "0.196.0"
+version = "0.197.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "411789e6a59e2169c1bc198562de15241a368dde8961cb18dd1bddbba5e2e5f5"
+checksum = "fb8b2ba47cda7f2941f66b4a0eec34b5f21d4ac3566fbc89598ff499a300f406"
 dependencies = [
  "num-bigint",
  "serde",
@@ -7337,9 +7337,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "v8"
-version = "0.93.0"
+version = "0.93.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "abc3ff12243d345cc697c151b29fbb8ad1f898e3f8b7aa1386701ff9f2c7cbbf"
+checksum = "82943fec029559cb43f9d7fc36e2bb85121534702d6f893554e737d1b147d140"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 2.5.0",
  "fslock",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b1d807d96f..e79c943bc4 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ repository = "https://github.com/denoland/deno"
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
 deno_ast = { version = "=0.39.1", features = ["transpiling"] }
-deno_core = { version = "0.287.0" }
+deno_core = { version = "0.288.0" }
 
 deno_bench_util = { version = "0.149.0", path = "./bench_util" }
 deno_lockfile = "0.20.0"
diff --git a/ext/node/ops/vm_internal.rs b/ext/node/ops/vm_internal.rs
index bbdcba632d..54b9aaa471 100644
--- a/ext/node/ops/vm_internal.rs
+++ b/ext/node/ops/vm_internal.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ use deno_core::error::type_error;
 use deno_core::error::AnyError;
 use deno_core::v8;
 use deno_core::v8::MapFnTo;
-use std::rc::Rc;
 
 pub const PRIVATE_SYMBOL_NAME: v8::OneByteConst =
   v8::String::create_external_onebyte_const(b"node:contextify:context");
@@ -82,13 +81,18 @@ impl ContextifyContext {
     sandbox_obj: v8::Local<v8::Object>,
   ) {
     let main_context = scope.get_current_context();
-    let context_state = main_context
-      .get_slot::<Rc<deno_core::ContextState>>(scope)
-      .unwrap()
-      .clone();
+    let context_state = main_context.get_aligned_pointer_from_embedder_data(
+      deno_core::CONTEXT_STATE_SLOT_INDEX,
+    );
 
     v8_context.set_security_token(main_context.get_security_token(scope));
-    v8_context.set_slot(scope, context_state);
+    // SAFETY: set embedder data from the creation context
+    unsafe {
+      v8_context.set_aligned_pointer_in_embedder_data(
+        deno_core::CONTEXT_STATE_SLOT_INDEX,
+        context_state,
+      );
+    }
 
     let context = v8::Global::new(scope, v8_context);
     let sandbox = v8::Global::new(scope, sandbox_obj);
@@ -102,7 +106,7 @@ impl ContextifyContext {
     // lives longer than the execution context, so this should be safe.
     unsafe {
       v8_context.set_aligned_pointer_in_embedder_data(
-        1,
+        2,
         ptr as *const ContextifyContext as _,
       );
     }
@@ -164,7 +168,7 @@ impl ContextifyContext {
   ) -> Option<&'c ContextifyContext> {
     let context = object.get_creation_context(scope)?;
 
-    let context_ptr = context.get_aligned_pointer_from_embedder_data(1);
+    let context_ptr = context.get_aligned_pointer_from_embedder_data(2);
     // SAFETY: We are storing a pointer to the ContextifyContext
     // in the embedder data of the v8::Context during creation.
     Some(unsafe { &*(context_ptr as *const ContextifyContext) })