GHSA-897f-g5gm-fmxm

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Wasmtime: Bit-packing in Cranelift compiler causes silent overflow and miscompilation

view advisory published 2026-10-23Licence: CC-BY-4.0

## Summary 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. ## Impact 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. ## Patches Wasmtime v36.0.19 has been released which fixes this issue.

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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…
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