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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

First in our coverage: The Hacker News, 26 OctRSS feed
  1. Wasmtime flaws could let malicious WebAssembly escape sandboxesThe Hacker News · first in our coverage

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