CVE-2026-115889 PUBLISHED

Wasmtime: Bit-packing in Cranelift compiler causes silent overflow and miscompilation

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 23.10.2026 Published: 23.10.2026 Updated: 23.10.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.9

Product Status

Vendor bytecodealliance
Product wasmtime
Versions
  • Version < 36.0.19 is affected
  • Version >= 37.0.0, < 43.0.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-197: Numeric Truncation Error CWE
  • CWE-843: Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') CWE