CVE-2026-47261 (GCVE-0-2026-47261)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-15 19:47 – Updated: 2026-06-16 12:46
VLAI
Title
Wasmtime: WASI path_open(TRUNCATE) bypasses `FilePerms::WRITE` host restriction
Summary
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-16 12:45 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 8044 records in the last 180 days details
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
bytecodealliance wasmtime Affected: >= 37.0.0, < 44.0.2
Affected: >= 25.0.0, < 36.0.10
Affected: < 24.0.9
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