Wasmtime WASI implementations are vulnerable to guest-controlled resource exhaustion (bytecodealliance wasmtime)

CVE-2026-27204
MEDIUM 6.9

En bref

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.40 % · centile 35 ()
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
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GitHub_M
Statut NVD
Analyzed

Description

Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to versions 24.0.6, 36.0.6, 4.0.04, 41.0.4, and 42.0.0, Wasmtime's implementation of WASI host interfaces are susceptible to guest-controlled resource exhaustion on the host. Wasmtime did not appropriately place limits on resource allocations requested by the guests. This serves as a Denial of Service vector. Wasmtime 24.0.6, 36.0.6, 40.0.4, 41.0.4, and 42.0.0 have all been released with the fix for this issue. These versions do not prevent this issue in their default configuration to avoid breaking preexisting behaviors. All versions of Wasmtime have appropriate knobs to prevent this behavior, and Wasmtime 42.0.0-and-later will have these knobs tuned by default to prevent this issue from happening. There are no known workarounds for this issue without upgrading. Embedders are recommended to upgrade and configure their embeddings as necessary to prevent possibly-malicious guests from triggering this issue.

Faiblesses (CWE)

  • CWE-400 — Consommation de ressources non maîtrisée (déni de service)
  • CWE-770 — Allocation de ressources sans limite ni régulation
  • CWE-774 — Allocation of File Descriptors or Handles Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-789 — Allocation mémoire d'une taille excessive

Références

Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:HGitHub_M
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Références européennes

Configurations affectées (CPE NVD)

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
bytecodealliance · wasmtimeaffected < 24.0.6 ; affected >= 25.0.0, < 36.0.6 ; affected >= 37.0.0, < 40.0.4 ; affected >= 41.0.0, < 41.0.4

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
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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