CVE-2026-34941

rust-wasmtime: Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly

CVE-2026-34941 is fixed in rust-wasmtime on 1 platform by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-34941 (version 36.0.7+dfsg-1), released April 9, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
8.1
high
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0039
33rd percentile

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.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
rust-wasmtime · Debian 14 36.0.7+dfsg-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-34941 Apr 9, 2026

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