Vulnerability in Bytecodealliance Wasmtime

CVE-2022-23636

Wasmtime is an open source runtime for WebAssembly & WASI. Prior to versions 0.34.1 and 0.33.1, there exists a bug in the pooling instance allocator in Wasmtime's runtime where a failure to instantiate an instance for a module that defines…

EPSS: 0.002 (39.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-23636?
CVE-2022-23636 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bytecodealliance Wasmtime, classified under Access of Uninitialized Pointer. CVSS score: 5.1/10. Published 2022-02-16.
How severe is CVE-2022-23636?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-23636 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.