CVE-2026-118688 (GCVE-0-2026-118688)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-28 18:59
Modified
2026-10-28 18:59
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L
7.9 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
7.9 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-61 - UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
Summary
wasmtime-wasi in Wasmtime before 36.0.18, 37.0.0 before 48.0.6, and 49.0.0 before 49.0.3 re-appends a trailing slash to rename source paths, causing renameat on macOS and FreeBSD hosts to follow directory symlinks. A guest with sandbox write access can rename a relative symlink such as "up/" to move host directories into its sandbox and read or write them.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| bytecodealliance | wasmtime |
Version: 0 ≤ Version: 37.0.0 ≤ Version: 49.0.0 ≤ |
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
|---|
Nomenclature
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