9.9 Critical
CVE-2026-115889
Wasmtime: Bit-packing in Cranelift compiler causes silent overflow and miscompilation
bytecodealliancewasmtime
Status
- Not in CISA KEV
Exploit probabilityEPSSchecked 26 Oct
0.5%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Higher than 39% of scored CVEs
SeverityCVSS
9.9Critical
Description NVD
Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to 36.0.19 and 43.0.0, the Cranelift compiler backend bit-packs SSA value indices in a way that can silently overflow in release builds when compiling a sufficiently large or specially crafted Wasm function with many SSA values. The overflow can make Cranelift reference incorrect IR values, causing arbitrary miscompilation, type confusion, and other attacker-controlled effects that may escape the Wasm sandbox on any architecture using the default Cranelift backend. This issue is fixed in versions 36.0.19 and 43.0.0.
Coverage 1 article · 1 outlet
- Wasmtime flaws could let malicious WebAssembly escape sandboxesThe Hacker News · first in our coverage