CVE-2026-115387: Wasmtime denial of service via WASI filesystem timestamp overflow

CVE-2026-115387 · Severity: medium · CVSS 6.2 · Published 2026-10-22

Wasmtime is a WebAssembly runtime that executes untrusted code in isolated environments. A guest WASM program can crash the entire host runtime by passing specially crafted filesystem timestamp values to file operations, causing a denial of service that halts all workloads.

Technologies: Bytecode Alliance Wasmtime. Vendors: Bytecode Alliance.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2026-115387 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-115387 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2026-115387?
Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.2, published 22 October 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?
Bytecode Alliance Wasmtime before 36.0.16, 37.0.0 before 48.0.3, 49.0.0 before 49.0.1.
Is there a fix for CVE-2026-115387?
Yes: fixed in 36.0.16, 48.0.3, 49.0.1. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
How is CVE-2026-115387 attacked?
It is attacked with local access, in a software library.
Am I affected by CVE-2026-115387?
Check whether you run Bytecode Alliance Wasmtime at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

How to fix

  • Fixed in: 36.0.16, 48.0.3, 49.0.1

Technical details

The wasmtime-wasi crate fails to validate filesystem timestamp arguments (atim, mtim) before passing them to Rust's std::time::Duration::new, which panics on integer overflow when the microseconds field overflows into the seconds field. An attacker-controlled guest WASM program can trigger this panic by invoking path_filestat_set_times, fd_filestat_set_times, set-times, or set-times-at with overflow values like Timestamp { seconds: u64::MAX, microseconds: 1_000_000_000 }.

Affected products

  • Bytecode Alliance Wasmtime before 36.0.16, 37.0.0 before 48.0.3, 49.0.0 before 49.0.1

Timeline

  • 2026-09-24: disclosed
  • 2026-10-22: advisory

References

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