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CVE-2026-54786: CWE-772: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in bytecodealliance wasmtime

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VulnerabilityCVE-2026-54786cvecve-2026-54786cwe-772cwe-400
Published: 07/01/2026 (07/01/2026, 20:12:35 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: bytecodealliance
Product: wasmtime

Description

Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. All versions prior to 24.0.10; versions 25.0.0 through those before 36.0.11; versions 37.0.0 through those before 44.0.3; and versions 45.0.0 and 45.0.1 contain a native implementation of WASIp1 which suffers from a leak in the fd_renumber function where the file descriptor being renumbered to is not properly closed. Wasmtime's implementation erroneously only updated the table of descriptors for WASIp1 and didn't update the underlying table of descriptors used by the host. This behavior means that while fd_renumber works correctly from a guest's perspective it ends up leaking resources in the host that aren't cleaned up until the corresponding Store is destroyed. In a loop, guests can use fd_renumber to cause hosts to exhaust both resources and file descriptors. This bug only affects the native implementation of WASIp1, meaning that only runtimes which load core wasm modules and expose fd_renumber are affected. Runtimes are additionally only affected if they expose the ability to acquire a file descriptor, such as opening a file. For runtimes that deny access to files they are unaffected. This issue has been fixed in versions 24.0.10, 36.0.11, 44.0.3, and 45.0.2.

CVSS v4.0

Score 2.3low

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
Present
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Vuln. Confidentiality
None
Vuln. Integrity
None
Vuln. Availability
Low
Subsq. Confidentiality
None
Subsq. Integrity
None
Subsq. Availability
Low
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
GitHub_M
Date Reserved
2026-06-15T23:23:57.714Z
Cvss Version
4.0
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a457a6627e9c7971919753b

Added to database: 07/01/2026, 20:36:54 UTC

Last updated: 07/01/2026, 20:36:54 UTC

Views: 1

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