CVE-2026-35195: bytecodealliance wasmtime Out-of-bounds Write

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-35195 is a medium (CVSS 6.1) Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in bytecodealliance wasmtime. EPSS estimates a 0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 09-04-2026
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 13-04-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1, 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. This vulnerability is fixed in 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1.

• CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteThe product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.