Improper Validation of Array Index Affecting wasmtime-environ package, versions <24.0.7>=25.0.0 <36.0.7>=37.0.0 <42.0.2>=43.0.0 <43.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-WASMTIMEENVIRON-15967290
  • published10 Apr 2026
  • disclosed9 Apr 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-34942  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-129  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wasmtime-environ to version 24.0.7, 36.0.7, 42.0.2, 43.0.1 or higher.

Overview

wasmtime-environ is a Standalone environment support for WebAssembly code in Cranelift

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Array Index through improper verification of UTF-16 or latin1+utf16 strings alignment during transcoding. An attacker can cause the host system to panic and become unavailable by transferring specially crafted strings across components.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1