CVE-2026-47261
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.
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Affected packages
Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|
wasmtime-wasicrates.io | >= 37.0.0, < 44.0.2 | 44.0.2 |
wasmtime-wasicrates.io | >= 25.0.0, < 36.0.10 | 36.0.10 |
wasmtime-wasicrates.io | < 24.0.9 | 24.0.9 |
Affected products
5- Range: >=0.0.0 <44.0.2 || >=44.0.0 <44.0.2 (or <24.0.9, <36.0.10, <44.0.2)
- osv-coords4 versions
< 11.0.3-r12+ 3 more
- (no CPE)range: < 11.0.3-r12
- (no CPE)range: < 1.5.4-r1
- (no CPE)range: < 11.0.3-r12
- (no CPE)range: < 1.5.4-r1
Patches
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References
7- github.com/advisories/GHSA-2r75-cxrj-cmphghsaADVISORY
- github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v24.0.9nvdWEB
- github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v36.0.10nvdWEB
- github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v44.0.2nvdWEB
- github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v45.0.0nvdWEB
- github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/security/advisories/GHSA-2r75-cxrj-cmphnvdWEB
- rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0149.htmlghsaWEB
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