Advisories

Wasmtime 47.0.0 before 48.0.3 and 49.0.0 before 49.0.1 Fuel Accounting Bypass DoS

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Severity
medium
Date
Affecting
  • wasmtime >= 47.0.0, < 48.0.3

  • wasmtime >= 49.0.0, < 49.0.1

CWE
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVSS
6.9
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
fitzgen
Description
Wasmtime 47.0.0 before 48.0.3 and 49.0.0 before 49.0.1 contains a fuel accounting flaw in Cranelift-compiled call_ref and try_table catch paths. Malicious guests can reset consumed fuel after calls to run exponentially long on linear fuel, evading timeouts and periodic yields for denial of service.

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