Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting wasmtime-wasi package, versions <36.0.17>=37.0.0 <48.0.4>=49.0.0 <49.0.2
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- published25 Oct 2026
- disclosed22 Oct 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 22 Oct 2026
NewCVE-2026-115381 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade wasmtime-wasi to version 36.0.17, 48.0.4, 49.0.2 or higher.
Overview
wasmtime-wasi is a Crate defining the Wasi type for Wasmtime, which represents a WASI instance which may be added to a linker.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the write-zeroes process in SinkOutputStream. An attacker can exhaust host memory and cause service disruption by requesting large zero-filled writes from a malicious WebAssembly guest.