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GHSA-m9w2-8782-2946 CVE-2026-34945 RUSTSEC-2026-0086

Wasmtime has host data leakage with 64-bit tables and Winch

Medium crates.io
Severity
0.0 / 10
Medium · CVSS 4.0
Exploit chance (EPSS)
0.32%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 25.45% of scored vulnerabilities.
Known exploited
No
Not in CISA's catalog
Weakness
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-681 Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types
Fix
36.0.7
Upgrade wasmtime to this version or later

Description

Impact

Wasmtime's Winch compiler contains a bug where a 64-bit table, part of the memory64 proposal of WebAssembly, incorrectly translated the table.size instruction. This bug could lead to disclosing data on the host's stack to WebAssembly guests. The host's stack can possibly contain sensitive data related to other host-originating operations which is not intended to be disclosed to guests.

This bug specifically arose from a mistake where the return value of table.size was statically typed as a 32-bit integer, as opposed to consulting the table's index type to see how large the returned register could be. When combined with details about Wnich's ABI, such as multi-value returns, this can be combined to read stack data from the host, within a guest. This information disclosure should not be possible in WebAssembly, violates spec semantics, and is a vulnerability in Wasmtime.

Patches

Wasmtime 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1 have been issued to fix this bug. Users are recommended to update to these patched versions of Wasmtime.

Workarounds

Users of Cranelift are not affected by this issue, but users of Winch have no workarounds other than disabling the Config::wasm_memory64 proposal.

Affected versions

crates.io

PackageVulnerableFixed in
wasmtime
>= 25.0.0, < 36.0.7
36.0.7
wasmtime
>= 37.0.0, < 42.0.2
42.0.2
wasmtime
>= 43.0.0, < 43.0.1
43.0.1
wasmtime
>= 0.0.0-0, < 36.0.7
>= 37.0.0, < 42.0.2
>= 43.0.0, < 43.0.1
36.0.7
42.0.2
43.0.1

How to fix

Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.

wasmtime crates.io → 36.0.7

cargo
cargo update -p wasmtime --precise 36.0.7

Severity breakdown

CVSS 4.0 0.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
Present
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality (vulnerable system)
Low
Integrity (vulnerable system)
None
Availability (vulnerable system)
None
Confidentiality (subsequent systems)
Low
Integrity (subsequent systems)
None
Availability (subsequent systems)
None

CVSS 3.1 6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Weakness

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

How to prevent it
  • Architecture and Design: Compartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area. Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

CWE-681: Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types

When converting from one data type to another, such as long to integer, data can be omitted or translated in a way that produces unexpected values. If the resulting values are used in a sensitive context, then dangerous behaviors may occur.

How to prevent it
  • Implementation: Avoid making conversion between numeric types. Always check for the allowed ranges.

References

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. Last updated by the source
  3. Latest EPSS score
AdvisorySeverityWhy it's related
RUSTSEC-2026-0424
Unchecked memory usage in transferring borrowed resources between components
Not rated yet Also affects wasmtime
RUSTSEC-2026-0423
Cross-engine type confusion with host-created struct-types-with-supertypes
Not rated yet Also affects wasmtime
RUSTSEC-2026-0422
Typed functions with `i31` or `nullref` arguments may panic due to insufficient type-check
Low Also affects wasmtime
RUSTSEC-2026-0379
Wasmtime: Cranelift backend on aarch64 can jump to incorrect target on large Wasm `br_table` instruction
Critical Also affects wasmtime
GHSA-9pvw-hwfg-92h5
Wasmtime: Panic lowering a host-created component model stream into a guest that expects a different payload type
Medium Also affects wasmtime
GHSA-897f-g5gm-fmxm
Wasmtime: Bit-packing in Cranelift compiler causes silent overflow and miscompilation
Critical Also affects wasmtime
RUSTSEC-2026-0364
Exception tags can cause host data structures to be unaligned
Not rated yet Also affects wasmtime
RUSTSEC-2026-0363
Component-model handle tables are capped only per instance and charged to no limit
Medium Also affects wasmtime
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