CVE-2026-27887 PUBLISHED

Spin has memory leaks in various WIT interfaces

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 24.02.2026 Published: 26.02.2026 Updated: 26.02.2026

Spin is an open source developer tool for building and running serverless applications powered by WebAssembly. When Spin is configured to allow connections to a database or web server which could return responses of unbounded size (e.g. tables with many rows or large content bodies), Spin may in some cases attempt to buffer the entire response before delivering it to the guest, which can lead to the host process running out of memory, panicking, and crashing. In addition, a malicious guest application could incrementally insert a large number of rows or values into a database and then retrieve them all in a single query, leading to large host allocations. Spin 3.6.1, SpinKube 0.6.2, and containerd-shim-spin 0.22.1 have been patched to address the issue. As a workaround, configure Spin to only allow access to trusted databases and HTTP servers which limit response sizes.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
CVSS Score: 6.9

Product Status

Vendor spinframework
Product spin
Versions
  • Version < 3.6.1 is affected
Vendor spinframework
Product SpinKube
Versions
  • Version < 0.6.2 is affected
Vendor spinframework
Product containerd-shim-spin
Versions
  • Version < 0.22.1 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE
  • CWE-774: Allocation of File Descriptors or Handles Without Limits or Throttling CWE
  • CWE-789: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value CWE