CVE-2022-31146

Use After Free in Wasmtime

Published Jul 20, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 6.4 Medium EPSS 1.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
Wasmtime is a standalone runtime for WebAssembly. There is a bug in the Wasmtime's code generator, Cranelift, where functions using reference types may be incorrectly missing metadata required for runtime garbage collection. This means that if a GC happens at runtime then the GC pass will mistakenly think these functions do not have live references to GC'd values, reclaiming them and deallocating them. The function will then subsequently continue to use the values assuming they had not been GC'd, leading later to a use-after-free. This bug was introduced in the migration to the `regalloc2` register allocator that occurred in the Wasmtime 0.37.0 release on 2022-05-20. This bug has been patched and users should upgrade to Wasmtime version 0.38.2. Mitigations for this issue can be achieved by disabling the reference types proposal by passing `false` to `wasmtime::Config::wasm_reference_types` or downgrading to Wasmtime 0.36.0 or prior.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-6243 Wasmtime vulnerable to Use After Free with `externref`s
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-5fhj-g3p3-pq9g Wasmtime vulnerable to Use After Free with `externref`s
History
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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Apr 23, 2025, 5:57 PM
Reserved
May 18, 2022, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jul 21, 2022, 4:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:44 AM