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CVE-2022-39392: Wasmtime vulnerable to out of bounds read/write with zero-memory-pages configuration

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 29/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.66% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 51.7% of all records.
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
  • Fixed version: wasmtime (crates.io) 1.0.2, 2.0.2.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to wasmtime (crates.io) 1.0.2, 2.0.2 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Wasmtime is a standalone runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to version 2.0.2, there is a bug in Wasmtime's implementation of its pooling instance allocator when the allocator is configured to give WebAssembly instances a maximum of zero pages of memory. In this configuration, the virtual memory mapping for WebAssembly memories did not meet the compiler-required configuration requirements for safely executing WebAssembly modules. Wasmtime's default settings require virtual memory page faults to indicate that wasm reads/writes are out-of-bounds, but the pooling allocator's configuration would not create an appropriate virtual memory mapping for this meaning out of bounds reads/writes can successfully read/write memory unrelated to the wasm sandbox within range of the base address of the memory mapping created by the pooling allocator. This bug is not applicable with the default settings of the `wasmtime` crate. This bug can only be triggered by setting `InstanceLimits::memory_pages` to zero. This is expected to be a very rare configuration since this means that wasm modules cannot allocate any pages of linear memory. All wasm modules produced by all current toolchains are highly likely to use linear memory, so it's expected to be unlikely that this configuration is set to zero by any production embedding of Wasmtime. This bug has been patched and users should upgrade to Wasmtime 2.0.2. This bug can be worked around by increasing the `memory_pages` allotment when configuring the pooling allocator to a value greater than zero. If an embedding wishes to still prevent memory from actually being used then the `Store::limiter` method can be used to dynamically disallow growth of memory beyond 0 bytes large. Note that the default `memory_pages` value is greater than zero.

HighCVSS 7.4 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Nov 10, 2022
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.6% · 51th percentile

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Action score

29

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
29 / 40 · 7.4 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.6%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD
7.4
CNA · GitHub_M
5.9
1.5 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
bytecodealliancewasmtime

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • bytecodealliance wasmtimebefore 1.0.2
  • bytecodealliance wasmtime2.0.0 and later · before 2.0.2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • bytecodealliance wasmtime

    • < 2.0.2affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
crates.iowasmtimefrom 0.0.0-0 · before 1.0.21.0.2
crates.iowasmtimefrom 2.0.0 · before 2.0.22.0.2
crates.iowasmtimebefore 1.0.21.0.2

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

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    39Monitor
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    39Monitor
  • CVE-2022-39394wasmtime_trap_code C API function has out of bounds write vulnerability
    39Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-23636Feb 16, 2022 · Invalid drop of partially-initialized instances in wasmtime
    32Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-24791Mar 31, 2022 · Use after free in Wasmtime
    39Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2022-39393Nov 10, 2022 · Wasmtime vulnerable to data leakage between instances in the pooling allocator
    34Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
crates.io:wasmtime1.0.2Package registry (OSV)
crates.io:wasmtime2.0.2Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

nvd-primary

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

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References

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