Wasmtime provides unsound API access to a WebAssembly shared linear memory (bytecodealliance wasmtime)

CVE-2025-64345
LOW 1.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.12 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Deferred

Description

Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to version 38.0.4, 37.0.3, 36.0.3, and 24.0.5, Wasmtime's Rust embedder API contains an unsound interaction where a WebAssembly shared linear memory could be viewed as a type which provides safe access to the host (Rust) to the contents of the linear memory. This is not sound for shared linear memories, which could be modified in parallel, and this could lead to a data race in the host. Patch releases have been issued for all supported versions of Wasmtime, notably: 24.0.5, 36.0.3, 37.0.3, and 38.0.4. These releases reject creation of shared memories via `Memory::new` and shared memories are now excluded from core dumps. As a workaround, eembeddings affected by this issue should use `SharedMemory::new` instead of `Memory::new` to create shared memories. Affected embeddings should also disable core dumps if they are unable to upgrade. Note that core dumps are disabled by default but the wasm threads proposal (and shared memory) is enabled by default.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1LOW 1.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NGitHub_M
CVSS 3.1LOW 1.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
bytecodealliance · wasmtimeaffected >= 38.0.1, < 38.0.4 ; affected >= 37.0.0, < 37.0.3 ; affected >= 26.0.0, < 36.0.3 ; affected < 24.0.5

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD