CVE-2026-44216 PUBLISHED

Wasmtime: Panic when allocating a table exceeding the size of the host's address space

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 05.05.2026 Published: 14.05.2026 Updated: 14.05.2026

Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. From 30.0.0 to 36.0.8, 43.0.2, and 44.0.1, Wasmtime's allocation logic for a WebAssembly table contained checked arithmetic which panicked on overflow. This overflow is possible to trigger, and thus panic, when a table with an extremely large size is allocated. This is possible with the WebAssembly memory64 proposal where tables can have sizes in the 64-bit range as opposed to the previous 32-bit range which would not overflow. The panic happens when attempting to create a very large table, such as when instantiating a WebAssembly module or component. This vulnerability is fixed in 36.0.8, 43.0.2, and 44.0.1.

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:N
CVSS Score: 5.9

Product Status

Vendor bytecodealliance
Product wasmtime
Versions
  • Version >= 30.0.0, < 36.0.8 is affected
  • Version >= 37.0.0, < 43.0.2 is affected
  • Version 44.0.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE