Wasmtime: Panic when allocating a table exceeding the size of the host's address space
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.9epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 76% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
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
Affected products
bytecodealliance · wasmtimeReferences
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:45341https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44216https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2477467https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/security/advisories/GHSA-p8xm-42r7-89xghttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-44216.json