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HistorySep 17, 2021 - 8:05 p.m.

CVE-2021-39216 Use after free passing `externref`s to Wasm in Wasmtime

2021-09-1720:05:11
CWE-416
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6.3 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

14.3%

Wasmtime is an open source runtime for WebAssembly & WASI. In Wasmtime from version 0.19.0 and before version 0.30.0 there was a use-after-free bug when passing externrefs from the host to guest Wasm content. To trigger the bug, you have to explicitly pass multiple externrefs from the host to a Wasm instance at the same time, either by passing multiple externrefs as arguments from host code to a Wasm function, or returning multiple externrefs to Wasm from a multi-value return function defined in the host. If you do not have host code that matches one of these shapes, then you are not impacted. If Wasmtime’s VMExternRefActivationsTable became filled to capacity after passing the first externref in, then passing in the second externref could trigger a garbage collection. However the first externref is not rooted until we pass control to Wasm, and therefore could be reclaimed by the collector if nothing else was holding a reference to it or otherwise keeping it alive. Then, when control was passed to Wasm after the garbage collection, Wasm could use the first externref, which at this point has already been freed. We have reason to believe that the effective impact of this bug is relatively small because usage of externref is currently quite rare. The bug has been fixed, and users should upgrade to Wasmtime 0.30.0. If you cannot upgrade Wasmtime yet, you can avoid the bug by disabling reference types support in Wasmtime by passing false to wasmtime::Config::wasm_reference_types.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "wasmtime",
    "vendor": "bytecodealliance",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": ">=0.19.0, <=0.29.0"
      }
    ]
  }
]

6.3 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

14.3%

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