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CVE-2026-47261

HIGH
7.5
CVSS 3.1
Description
Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. In versions prior to 24.0.9, 36.0.10, and 44.0.2, when a filesystem preopen is given DirPerms::all() and FilePerms::READ without FilePerms::WRITE, this access control mechanism can be bypassed via the wasip2 descriptor.open-at or wasip1 path_open interfaces by opening a file with only the OpenFlags::TRUNCATE oflag. The root cause is that the clause handling OpenFlags::TRUNCATE in crates/wasi/src/filesystem.rs (Dir::open_at, lines 967–969) did not set open_mode |= OpenMode::WRITE;, which is later used for the access control check against FilePerms to determine whether opening the file is permitted; the single-line fix adds that missing assignment, after which the affected calls correctly fail with error-code.not-permitted and ERRNO_PERM respectively. Only wasmtime-wasi embeddings that combine DirPerms::MUTATE with FilePerms::READ are affected by this bug. In particular, the Wasmtime project's wasmtime-cli's use of wasmtime-wasi is not affected, because it always sets FilePerms::all() for all preopens. This issue has been fixed in versions 24.0.9, 36.0.10 and44.0.2.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-47261
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Reserved
2026-05-18 23:03 UTC
Published
2026-06-15 19:47 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-15 19:47 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-284
CWE-284: Improper Access Control
Vendor / Product
bytecodealliance / wasmtime
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

7.5 HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
bytecodealliance wasmtime >= 37.0.0, < 44.0.2, >= 25.0.0, < 36.0.10, < 24.0.9
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-284 cna CWE-284: Improper Access Control
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
7.5 HIGH 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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