CVE-2026-115889
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Integer Overflow in Wasmtime Cranelift Backend

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-115889, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-10-23

Last updated on: 2026-10-23

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description

Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to 36.0.19 and 43.0.0, the Cranelift compiler backend bit-packs SSA value indices in a way that can silently overflow in release builds when compiling a sufficiently large or specially crafted Wasm function with many SSA values. The overflow can make Cranelift reference incorrect IR values, causing arbitrary miscompilation, type confusion, and other attacker-controlled effects that may escape the Wasm sandbox on any architecture using the default Cranelift backend. This issue is fixed in versions 36.0.19 and 43.0.0.

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Published
2026-10-23
Last Modified
2026-10-23
Generated
2026-10-24
EPSS Evaluated
N/A
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Affected Vendors & Products

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Vendor Product Version / Range
bytecodealliance wasmtime < 36.0.19
bytecodealliance wasmtime >= 37.0.0, < 43.0.0

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CWE-843 The product allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.
CWE-197 Truncation errors occur when a primitive is cast to a primitive of a smaller size and data is lost in the conversion.

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