Wasmtime: WASI path_open(TRUNCATE) bypasses `FilePerms::WRITE` host restriction (bytecodealliance wasmtime)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.36 % · percentile 29 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- GitHub_M
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Description
Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. In versions prior to 24.0.9, 36.0.10, and 44.0.2, when a filesystem preopen is given DirPerms::all() and FilePerms::READ without FilePerms::WRITE, this access control mechanism can be bypassed via the wasip2 descriptor.open-at or wasip1 path_open interfaces by opening a file with only the OpenFlags::TRUNCATE oflag. The root cause is that the clause handling OpenFlags::TRUNCATE in crates/wasi/src/filesystem.rs (Dir::open_at, lines 967–969) did not set open_mode |= OpenMode::WRITE;, which is later used for the access control check against FilePerms to determine whether opening the file is permitted; the single-line fix adds that missing assignment, after which the affected calls correctly fail with error-code.not-permitted and ERRNO_PERM respectively. Only wasmtime-wasi embeddings that combine DirPerms::MUTATE with FilePerms::READ are affected by this bug. In particular, the Wasmtime project's wasmtime-cli's use of wasmtime-wasi is not affected, because it always sets FilePerms::all() for all preopens. This issue has been fixed in versions 24.0.9, 36.0.10 and44.0.2.
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-284 — Improper Access Control
References
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/security/advisories/GHSA-2r75-cxrj-cmph
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v24.0.9
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v36.0.10
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v44.0.2
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v45.0.0
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N | GitHub_M |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N | NVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-37001
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-47261
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*< 24.0.9cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*≥ 25.0.0 < 36.0.10cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*≥ 37.0.0 < 44.0.2
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| bytecodealliance · wasmtime | affected >= 37.0.0, < 44.0.2 ; affected >= 25.0.0, < 36.0.10 ; affected < 24.0.9 |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |