CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-35195

MediumCVSS 5.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.22%

12th percentile - higher than 12% of all known CVEs

Summary

In Wasmtime prior to 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1, the implementation of transcoding strings between components does not validate the return value of a guest component's realloc before the host writes through the pointer. This enables a guest to cause the host to write arbitrary transcoded string bytes to an arbitrary location up to 4GiB away from the base of linear memory, potentially hitting unmapped memory or corrupting host data structures.

Risk Assessment

A malicious WebAssembly guest can cause the host process to crash or, in some configurations, corrupt host data or other guests' data. By default, this leads to process abort due to an unhandled fault.

Recommendation

Update Wasmtime to version 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, or 43.0.1. Until then, consider restricting the execution of untrusted WebAssembly modules.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1, Wasmtime's implementation of transcoding strings between components contains a bug where the return value of a guest component's realloc is not validated before the host attempts to write through the pointer. This enables a guest to cause the host to write arbitrary transcoded string bytes to an arbitrary location up to 4GiB away from the base of linear memory. These writes on the host could hit unmapped memory or could corrupt host data structures depending on Wasmtime's configuration. Wasmtime by default reserves 4GiB of virtual memory for a guest's linear memory meaning that this bug will by default on hosts cause the host to hit unmapped memory and abort the process due to an unhandled fault. Wasmtime can be configured, however, to reserve less memory for a guest and to remove all guard pages, so some configurations of Wasmtime may lead to corruption of data outside of a guest's linear memory, such as host data structures or other guests's linear memories. This vulnerability is fixed in 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1.

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