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CVE-2026-35195 — wasmtime

CVE-2026-35195 is a Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in wasmtime. A fix is available for wasmtime — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Wasmtime has an out-of-bounds write or crash when transcoding component model strings

Also known asGHSA-394w-hwhg-8vgmRUSTSEC-2026-0091
Published
Updated
Affected
4 pkgs
Patched
4 / 4
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 3, 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-2026-35195.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.2%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs12th percentile — riskier than 12% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.25%0.50%0.76%0.0%0.2%May 26Sep 26Nov 26

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

Real-World Exposure

4 pkgs affected
🦀wasmtime🦀wasmtime🦀wasmtime🦀wasmtime

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Description

Impact

Wasmtime's implementation of transcoding strings between components contains a bug where the return value of a guest component's realloc is not validated before the host attempts to write through the pointer. This enables a guest to cause the host to write arbitrary transcoded string bytes to an arbitrary location up to 4GiB away from the base of linear memory. These writes on the host could hit unmapped memory or could corrupt host data structures depending on Wasmtime's configuration.

Wasmtime by default reserves 4GiB of virtual memory for a guest's linear memory meaning that this bug will by default on hosts cause the host to hit unmapped memory and abort the process due to an unhandled fault. Wasmtime can be configured, however, to reserve less memory for a guest and to remove all guard pages, so some configurations of Wasmtime may lead to corruption of data outside of a guest's linear memory, such as host data structures or other guests's linear memories.

Patches

Wasmtime 24.0.7, 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

There is no known workaround for this issue and affected hosts/embeddings are recommended to upgrade.

Affected Packages

4 total 4 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🦀crates.iowasmtimeall versions24.0.7cargo update -p wasmtime --precise 24.0.7
🦀crates.iowasmtime≥ 25.0.0&&< 36.0.736.0.7cargo update -p wasmtime --precise 36.0.7
🦀crates.iowasmtime≥ 37.0.0&&< 42.0.242.0.2cargo update -p wasmtime --precise 42.0.2
🦀crates.iowasmtime≥ 43.0.0&&< 43.0.143.0.1cargo update -p wasmtime --precise 43.0.1

Affected Products

1 product · 4 configurations
Application
wasmtimebytecodealliance
≥ 37.0.0 && < 42.0.2
1 version
43.0.0

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency
  1. 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.

  2. Fix

    Update wasmtime to 24.0.7 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2026-35195 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. 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-2026-35195 (CC BY 4.0)

Frequently Asked Questions

### Impact Wasmtime's implementation of transcoding strings between components contains a bug where the return value of a guest component's `realloc` is not validated before the host attempts to write through the pointer. This enables a guest to cause the host to write arbitrary transcoded string bytes to an arbitrary location up to 4GiB away from the base of linear memory. These writes on the host could hit unmapped memory or could corrupt host data structures depending on Wasmtime's configuration. Wasmtime by default reserves 4GiB of virtual memory for a guest's linear memory meaning that
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

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CVE-2026-35195: wasmtime — Fixed in 24.0.7