CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-35186

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

12th percentile - higher than 12% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in Wasmtime's Winch compiler backend (versions 25.0.0 to before 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1) causes the result of the table.grow operator to be incorrectly typed. For 32-bit tables, the result is internally tagged as a 64-bit value, leading to compiler state corruption and potentially allowing read/write of up to 16 bytes before linear memory. The default Wasmtime configuration (Cranelift compiler, guard pages) is not affected; the issue occurs when Winch is explicitly chosen.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability can lead to a DoS attack by crashing the host process, and with guard pages disabled, it may leak up to 16 bytes of host address space data. The risk affects organizations using Wasmtime with the Winch compiler.

Recommendation

Update Wasmtime to version 36.0.7, 42.0.2, or 43.0.1. If possible, use the default Cranelift compiler and do not disable guard pages before linear memory.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. From 25.0.0 to before 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1, Wasmtime's Winch compiler backend contains a bug where translating the table.grow operator causes the result to be incorrectly typed. For 32-bit tables this means that the result of the operator, internally in Winch, is tagged as a 64-bit value instead of a 32-bit value. This invalid internal representation of Winch's compiler state compounds into further issues depending on how the value is consumed. The primary consequence of this bug is that bytes in the host's address space can be stored/read from. This is only applicable to the 16 bytes before linear memory, however, as the only significant return value of table.grow that can be misinterpreted is -1. The bytes before linear memory are, by default, unmapped memory. Wasmtime will detect this fault and abort the process, however, because wasm should not be able to access these bytes. Overall this this bug in Winch represents a DoS vector by crashing the host process, a correctness issue within Winch, and a possible leak of up to 16-bytes before linear memory. Wasmtime's default compiler is Cranelift, not Winch, and Wasmtime's default settings are to place guard pages before linear memory. This means that Wasmtime's default configuration is not affected by this issue, and when explicitly choosing Winch Wasmtime's otherwise default configuration leads to a DoS. Disabling guard pages before linear memory is required to possibly leak up to 16-bytes of host data. This vulnerability is fixed in 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1.

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