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CVE-2026-34941 (GCVE-0-2026-34941)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-09 18:29 – Updated: 2026-04-10 14:11

Title

Wasmtime has a Heap OOB read in component model UTF-16 to latin1+utf16 string transcoding

Summary

Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1, Wasmtime contains a vulnerability where when transcoding a UTF-16 string to the latin1+utf16 component-model encoding it would incorrectly validate the byte length of the input string when performing a bounds check. Specifically the number of code units were checked instead of the byte length, which is twice the size of the code units. This vulnerability can cause the host to read beyond the end of a WebAssembly's linear memory in an attempt to transcode nonexistent bytes. In Wasmtime's default configuration this will read unmapped memory on a guard page, terminating the process with a segfault. Wasmtime can be configured, however, without guard pages which would mean that host memory beyond the end of linear memory may be read and interpreted as UTF-16. A host segfault is a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wasmtime, and possibly being able to read beyond the end of linear memory is additionally a vulnerability. Note that reading beyond the end of linear memory requires nonstandard configuration of Wasmtime, specifically with guard pages disabled. This vulnerability is fixed in 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1.

Severity

6.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-04-10 14:11 UTC

CWE

CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/secu…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
bytecodealliance	wasmtime	Affected: < 24.0.7 Affected: >= 25.0.0, < 36.0.7 Affected: >= 37.0.0, < 42.0.2 Affected: >= 43.0.0, < 44.0.1	guessed

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FKIE_CVE-2026-34941

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-09 19:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:39

Severity

8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
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Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
bytecodealliance	wasmtime	*
bytecodealliance	wasmtime	*
bytecodealliance	wasmtime	*
bytecodealliance	wasmtime	*

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GHSA-HX6P-XPX3-JVVV

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-04-09 20:22 – Updated: 2026-04-24 21:03

Summary

Wasmtime: Heap OOB read in component model UTF-16 to latin1+utf16 string transcoding

Details

Summary

Wasmtime contains a vulnerability where when transcoding a UTF-16 string to the latin1+utf16 component-model encoding it would incorrectly validate the byte length of the input string when performing a bounds check. Specifically the number of code units were checked instead of the byte length, which is twice the size of the code units.

This vulnerability can cause the host to read beyond the end of a WebAssembly's linear memory in an attempt to transcode nonexistent bytes. In Wasmtime's default configuration this will read unmapped memory on a guard page, terminating the process with a segfault. Wasmtime can be configured, however, without guard pages which would mean that host memory beyond the end of linear memory may be read and interpreted as UTF-16.

A host segfault is a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wasmtime, and possibly being able to read beyond the end of linear memory is additionally a vulnerability. Note that reading beyond the end of linear memory requires nonstandard configuration of Wasmtime, specifically with guard pages disabled.

Impact

This is an out-of-bounds memory access. Any user running untrusted wasm components that use cross-component string passing (with UTF-16 source and latin1+utf16 destination encodings) is affected.

With guard pages: Denial of service. The host process crashes with SIGBUS/SIGSEGV.
Without guard pages: Potential information disclosure. The guest can read host memory beyond its linear memory allocation.

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 workaround for this bug. Hosts are recommended to updated to a patched version of Wasmtime.

Severity

8.1 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

6.9 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10715-1

Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2026-05-06 00:00 - Updated: 2026-05-06 00:00

Summary

libtree-sitter0_26-0.26.8-2.1 on GA media

Severity

Moderate

Scope

4 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2026-34941.

CVE-2026-34941

5.3 (Medium)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Recommended: 16 products

Open the full advisory

rustsec-2026-0093

Vulnerability from osv_rustsec

Published

2026-04-09 12:00

Modified

2026-04-09 19:59

Summary

Heap OOB read in component model UTF-16 to latin1+utf16 string transcoding

Details

This is an entry in the RustSec database for the Wasmtime security advisory located at https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/security/advisories/GHSA-hx6p-xpx3-jvvv For more information see the GitHub-hosted security advisory.

Severity

6.9 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References

URL

Type

	https://crates.io/crates/wasmtime	PACKAGE
	https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0093.html	ADVISORY
	https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/secu…	ADVISORY

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SUSE-SU-2026:21789-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2026-05-14 08:09 - Updated: 2026-05-14 08:09

Summary

Security update for tree-sitter

Severity

Important

Scope

10 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2026-34941.

CVE-2026-34941

5.3 (Medium)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Recommended: 18 products

Open the full advisory

ubuntu-cve-2026-34941

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2026-04-09 19:16

Modified

2026-05-20 15:27

Summary

Details

Severity

6.9 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

8.1 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-34941	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-34941	REPORT
	https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/secu…	REPORT

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CVE-2026-34941 (GCVE-0-2026-34941)

FKIE_CVE-2026-34941

GHSA-HX6P-XPX3-JVVV

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OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10715-1

rustsec-2026-0093

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ubuntu-cve-2026-34941

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