How severe is CVE-2026-34988?

No CVSS score has been assigned to CVE-2026-34988 yet. Review the advisory details and affected package list to assess your exposure.

Which packages are affected by CVE-2026-34988?

CVE-2026-34988 affects the following packages: wasmtime (crates.io), wasmtime (crates.io), wasmtime (crates.io). Ecosystems affected: crates.io.

How do I fix CVE-2026-34988?

Update wasmtime to 36.0.7 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2026-34988 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

How do I detect CVE-2026-34988 in my crates.io dependencies?

Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for wasmtime, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

How do I mitigate CVE-2026-34988 if there is no patch (or I can't update yet)?

Constrain what reaches the vulnerable code: limit the size and shape of untrusted input, isolate the affected component in a sandboxed or least-privileged process, and enable the platform's memory-safety mitigations (ASLR, stack protector, hardened allocator) so an out-of-bounds access is more likely to fail closed than to be exploitable.

Is CVE-2026-34988 actively exploited in the wild?

No public exploit code has been indexed for CVE-2026-34988 yet. This does not mean the vulnerability cannot be exploited — absence of public exploits does not imply safety. Apply the recommended fix and use O3 Security to monitor your exposure.

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2026-34988?

CVE-2026-34988 has an EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) score of 0.3%, placing it in the 23th percentile of all CVEs. EPSS is maintained by FIRST.org and estimates the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. This score indicates relatively lower exploitation probability, though the CVSS severity should still guide your patching priority.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2026-34988?

CVE-2026-34988 is classified as Buffer Overflow (CWE-119). This weakness type describe the underlying flaw category, which helps determine the potential impact and the right class of mitigation. This is a high-impact weakness class that often enables remote code execution or data exposure.

When was CVE-2026-34988 published, and has it been updated?

CVE-2026-34988 was published on April 9, 2026 and was last updated on October 28, 2026. Advisory data evolves as severity scores, affected ranges, and exploit intelligence are revised — always check the latest version of the advisory before acting.

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CVE-2026-34988 — wasmtime

CVE-2026-34988 is a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in wasmtime. A fix is available for wasmtime — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Wasmtime leaks data between pooling allocator instances

Also known asGHSA-6wgr-89rj-399pRUSTSEC-2026-0088

Published

Apr 9, 2026

Updated

Oct 28, 2026

Affected

3 pkgs

Patched

3 / 3

Exploits

None indexed

Exploitation data as of Nov 9, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2026-34988.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗

0.3%probability of exploitation in next 30 days

Lower Risk+0.01%

Lower risk than most CVEs23th percentile — riskier than 23% of all scored CVEsHighest risk

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

Real-World Exposure

3 pkgs affected

🦀wasmtime🦀wasmtime🦀wasmtime

Real-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects crates.io packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.

Description

Impact

Wasmtime's implementation of its pooling allocator contains a bug where in certain configurations the contents of linear memory can be leaked from one instance to the next. The implementation of resetting the virtual memory permissions for linear memory used the wrong predicate to determine if resetting was necessary, where the compilation process used a different predicate. This divergence meant that the pooling allocator incorrectly deduced at runtime that resetting virtual memory permissions was not necessary while compile-time determine that virtual memory could be relied upon.

Exposing this bug requires specific configuration values to be used. If any of these configurations are not applicable then this bug does not happen:

The pooling allocator must be in use.
The Config::memory_guard_size configuration option must be 0.
The Config::memory_reservation configuration must be less than 4GiB.
The pooling allocator must be configured with max_memory_size the same as the memory_reservation value.

If all of these conditions are applicable then when a linear memory is reused the VM permissions of the previous iteration are not reset. This means that the compiled code, which is assuming out-of-bounds loads will segfault, will not actually segfault and can read the previous contents of linear memory if it was previously mapped.

This represents a data leakage vulnerability between guest WebAssembly instances which breaks WebAssembly's semantics and additionally breaks the sandbox that Wasmtime provides. Wasmtime is not vulnerable to this issue with its default settings, nor with the default settings of the pooling allocator, but embeddings are still allowed to configure these values to cause this vulnerability.

Patches

Wasmtime 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1 have been issued to fix this bug. Users are recommended to update to these patched versions of Wasmtime.

Workarounds

All four conditions above must be met to be vulnerable to this bug, and users can work around this bug by adjusting any of the above conditions. For example it is strongly recommended that guard pages are configured for linear memories which would make this bug not applicable.

Affected Packages

3 total 3 fixed

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable range	Fix
🦀crates.io	`wasmtime`	≥ 28.0.0&&< 36.0.7	36.0.7`cargo update -p wasmtime --precise 36.0.7`
🦀crates.io	`wasmtime`	≥ 37.0.0&&< 42.0.2	42.0.2`cargo update -p wasmtime --precise 42.0.2`
🦀crates.io	`wasmtime`	≥ 43.0.0&&< 43.0.1	43.0.1`cargo update -p wasmtime --precise 43.0.1`

Affected Products

1 product · 3 configurations

Application

wasmtimebytecodealliance

≥ 37.0.0 && < 42.0.2

1 version

43.0.0

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

Detect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for wasmtime, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update wasmtime to 36.0.7 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2026-34988 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Constrain what reaches the vulnerable code: limit the size and shape of untrusted input, isolate the affected component in a sandboxed or least-privileged process, and enable the platform's memory-safety mitigations (ASLR, stack protector, hardened allocator) so an out-of-bounds access is more likely to fail closed than to be exploitable.

Fixing This On Your OS

If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.

Red HatModerate

Workaround published by Red Hat

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

Source: Red Hat security advisory for CVE-2026-34988 (CC BY 4.0)

Frequently Asked Questions

### Impact Wasmtime's implementation of its pooling allocator contains a bug where in certain configurations the contents of linear memory can be leaked from one instance to the next. The implementation of resetting the virtual memory permissions for linear memory used the wrong predicate to determine if resetting was necessary, where the compilation process used a different predicate. This divergence meant that the pooling allocator incorrectly deduced at runtime that resetting virtual memory permissions was not necessary while compile-time determine that virtual memory could be relied upon.

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