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
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | rust-wasmtime | 36.0.7+dfsg-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | rust-wasmtime | No fix yet | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |