Medium 6.5Published Jul 8, 2026

CVE-2026-58494Wasmtime: WASI hard links bypass wasmtime-wasi's FilePerms for destination

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 12:50 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to 24.0.11, 36.0.12, 45.0.3, and 46.0.1, wasmtime-wasi hard-link creation and renaming check directory permissions but not matching FilePerms on source and destination preopens, allowing a WASI guest with a read-only source file capability to overwrite host files exposed as FilePerms::READ through wasip1, wasip2, or wasip3 filesystem interfaces. This issue is fixed in versions 24.0.11, 36.0.12, 45.0.3, and 46.0.1.

CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-281, CWE-863
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Jul 9, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

bytecodealliance wasmtime bytecodealliance:wasmtime (from the name)	before 24.0.11; from 25.0.0, < 36.0.12; from 37.0.0, < 45.0.3; from 46.0.0, < 46.0.1	CNA record

References

References

https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/security/advisories/GHSA-4ch3-9j33-3pmj	x-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/commit/5ddfd5f1ef28f2041fa07d237ad0336e167b0e0c	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/commit/7db94cdcf0c79cb3dfde884b534b653f2dd83367	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/commit/8a250aac0962ca1364b5f16525720e9d0b39edcd	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/commit/d3ceb56ec35f39e02496eeb4e2d9c7f4fb964d9e	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v24.0.11	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v36.0.12	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v45.0.3	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v46.0.1	x-refsource-misc

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