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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-47261 EUVD-2026-37001GHSA-2r75-cxrj-cmphRUSTSEC-2026-0149

Wasmtime: WASI path_open(TRUNCATE) bypasses `FilePerms::WRITE` host restriction

Published Jun 15, 2026 · Updated Jun 16, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 rust-wasmtime 36.0.11+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 wizer 11.0.3-r12 —
Wolfi rolling zed 1.5.4-r1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
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

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