CVE-2026-115388
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
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.
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
6.9
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Deferred
Source identifier
Published
2026-10-22 19:17:46.173000
Last modified
2026-10-29 04:18:27.557000
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