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A GitHub-reviewed security advisory, not necessarily under active exploitation the way our CISA KEV advisories are, but a real, disclosed vulnerability in an open-source dependency.
Affected packages
Vulnerable: < 36.0.19
Patched in 36.0.19
Vulnerable: >= 37.0.0, < 43.0.0
Patched in 43.0.0
Details
In Wasmtime prior to v43, the Cranelift compiler backend bit-packs its SSA value indices in a way that can result in silent overflow in release builds, and result in incorrect value references in the IR resulting in arbitrary miscompilation. A very large Wasm function body, or one that is specially crafted to use many SSA values, can use this to force type-confusion or other arbitrary side-effects and escape the sandbox.
Cranelift was changed in Wasmtime v43 to use a full u32 index, with checks if that limit is exceeded, and so is no longer susceptible to this bug.
A Wasmtime engine with default settings (using the Cranelift backend) on any architecture/platform could experience a sandbox escape from a specially-crafted Wasm module.
Wasmtime v36.0.19 has been released which fixes this issue.
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