Description
Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. In versions prior to 24.0.9, 36.0.10, and 44.0.2, when a filesystem preopen is given DirPerms::all() and FilePerms::READ without FilePerms::WRITE, this access control mechanism can be bypassed via the wasip2 descriptor.open-at or wasip1 path_open interfaces by opening a file with only the OpenFlags::TRUNCATE oflag. The root cause is that the clause handling OpenFlags::TRUNCATE in crates/wasi/src/filesystem.rs (Dir::open_at, lines 967–969) did not set open_mode |= OpenMode::WRITE;, which is later used for the access control check against FilePerms to determine whether opening the file is permitted; the single-line fix adds that missing assignment, after which the affected calls correctly fail with error-code.not-permitted and ERRNO_PERM respectively. Only wasmtime-wasi embeddings that combine DirPerms::MUTATE with FilePerms::READ are affected by this bug. In particular, the Wasmtime project's wasmtime-cli's use of wasmtime-wasi is not affected, because it always sets FilePerms::all() for all preopens. This issue has been fixed in versions 24.0.9, 36.0.10 and44.0.2.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| bytecodealliance | wasmtime | >= 37.0.0, < 44.0.2, >= 25.0.0, < 36.0.10, < 24.0.9 | — |
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 | 36.0.11+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 | wizer | 11.0.3-r12 | — |
| Wolfi rolling | zed | 1.5.4-r1 | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| crates.io | wasmtime-wasi | >= 37.0.0, < 44.0.2 | 44.0.2 | GHSA-2r75-cxrj-cmph |
| crates.io | wasmtime-wasi | >= 25.0.0, < 36.0.10 | 36.0.10 | GHSA-2r75-cxrj-cmph |
| crates.io | wasmtime-wasi | < 24.0.9 | 24.0.9 | GHSA-2r75-cxrj-cmph |
| crates.io | wasmtime-wasi | >= 0.0.0-0, < 24.0.9 · >= 25.0.0, < 36.0.10 · >= 37.0.0, < 44.0.2 · >= 45.0.0, < 45.0.0 | 24.0.9, 36.0.10, 44.0.2, 45.0.0 | RUSTSEC-2026-0149 |
References
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/security/advisories/GHSA-2r75-cxrj-cmph
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v24.0.9
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v36.0.10
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v44.0.2
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v45.0.0