Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-34987
Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. From 25.0.0 to before 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1, Wasmtime with its Winch (baseline) non-default compiler backend may allow properly constructed guest Wasm to access host memory outside of its linear-memory sandbox. This vulnerability requires use of the Winch compiler (-Ccompiler=winch). By default, Wasmtime uses its Cranelift backend, not Winch. With Winch, the same incorrect assumption is present in theory on both aarch64 and x86-64. The aarch64 case has an observed-working proof of concept, while the x86-64 case is theoretical and may not be reachable in practice. This Winch compiler bug can allow the Wasm guest to access memory before or after the linear-memory region, independently of whether pre- or post-guard regions are configured. The accessible range in the initial bug proof-of-concept is up to 32KiB before the start of memory, or ~4GiB after the start of memory, independently of the size of pre- or post-guard regions or the use of explicit or guard-region-based bounds checking. However, the underlying bug assumes a 32-bit memory offset stored in a 64-bit register has its upper bits cleared when it may not, and so closely related variants of the initial proof-of-concept may be able to access truly arbitrary memory in-process. This could result in a host process segmentation fault (DoS), an arbitrary data leak from the host process, or with a write, potentially an arbitrary RCE. This vulnerability is fixed in 36.0.7, 42.0.2, and 43.0.1.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 14.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.9
Products affected by CVE-2026-34987
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:25.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:25.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:25.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:25.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:26.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:26.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:27.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:28.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:28.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:29.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:29.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:30.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:30.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:30.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:31.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:32.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:32.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:33.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:33.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:33.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:34.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:34.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:34.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:35.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:36.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:36.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:36.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:36.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:36.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:36.0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:36.0.6
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:37.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:37.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:37.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:37.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:38.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:38.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:38.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:38.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:38.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:39.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:39.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:39.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:40.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:40.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:40.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:40.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:40.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:41.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:41.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:41.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:41.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:41.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:42.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:42.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:43.0.0