Description
wasmtime-wasi-http in Wasmtime before 36.0.16, 37.0.0 before 48.0.3, and 49.0.0 before 49.0.1 does not enforce the wasi:io/streams check-write allowance for WASIp2 outgoing HTTP bodies, so oversized writes succeed instead of trapping. A malicious guest can pass large buffers to write on outgoing-body resources, holding host allocations for the store's lifetime and exhausting host memory.
Published: 2026-10-22
Score: 6.9 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
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History

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description wasmtime-wasi-http in Wasmtime before 36.0.16, 37.0.0 before 48.0.3, and 49.0.0 before 49.0.1 does not enforce the wasi:io/streams check-write allowance for WASIp2 outgoing HTTP bodies, so oversized writes succeed instead of trapping. A malicious guest can pass large buffers to write on outgoing-body resources, holding host allocations for the store's lifetime and exhausting host memory.
Title Wasmtime before 36.0.16, 37.0.0 before 48.0.3, and 49.0.0 before 49.0.1 Memory Exhaustion DoS via wasmtime-wasi-http Outgoing Body Write
First Time appeared Bytecodealliance
Bytecodealliance wasmtime
Weaknesses CWE-400
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Bytecodealliance
Bytecodealliance wasmtime
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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Bytecodealliance Wasmtime
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-22T19:13:54.430Z

Reserved: 2026-10-22T11:25:27.611Z

Link: CVE-2026-115388

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-10-22T19:17:46.173

Modified: 2026-10-22T19:17:46.290

Link: CVE-2026-115388

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-400

    Uncontrolled Resource Consumption