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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2026-35195 EUVD-2026-21039GHSA-394w-hwhg-8vgmRUSTSEC-2026-0091

Wasmtime has an out-of-bounds write or crash when transcoding component model strings

Published Apr 9, 2026 · Updated Apr 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
bytecodealliance wasmtime < 24.0.7, >= 25.0.0, < 36.0.7, >= 37.0.0, < 42.0.2, >= 43.0.0, < 44.0.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 rust-wasmtime 36.0.7+dfsg-1 —
Debian 13 rust-wasmtime No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 rust-wasmtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS rust-wasmtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 rust-wasmtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS rust-wasmtime No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling wash No fix yet —
Wolfi rolling wasmcloud 2.0.4-r0 —
Wolfi rolling wizer 11.0.3-r10 —
Wolfi rolling yara-x 1.15.0-r2 —
Wolfi rolling zed 0.228.0-r3 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io wasmtime < 24.0.7 24.0.7 GHSA-394w-hwhg-8vgm
crates.io wasmtime >= 25.0.0, < 36.0.7 36.0.7 GHSA-394w-hwhg-8vgm
crates.io wasmtime >= 37.0.0, < 42.0.2 42.0.2 GHSA-394w-hwhg-8vgm
crates.io wasmtime >= 43.0.0, < 43.0.1 43.0.1 GHSA-394w-hwhg-8vgm
crates.io wasmtime >= 0.0.0-0, < 24.0.7 · >= 25.0.0, < 36.0.7 · >= 37.0.0, < 42.0.2 · >= 43.0.0, < 43.0.1 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, 43.0.1 RUSTSEC-2026-0091

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