GHSA-2r75-cxrj-cmph
wasmtime-wasi: WASI path_open(TRUNCATE) bypasses `FilePerms::WRITE` host restriction
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| crates.io | wasmtime-wasi | >= 37.0.0, < 44.0.2 | 44.0.2 |
| crates.io | wasmtime-wasi | >= 25.0.0, < 36.0.10 | 36.0.10 |
| crates.io | wasmtime-wasi | < 24.0.9 | 24.0.9 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
## Summary
In `wasmtime-wasi`, when a filesystem preopen is given `DirPerms::all()` and `FilePerms::READ` without `FilePerms::WRITE`, this wasmtime-wasi enforced access control mechanism can be bypassed by using the wasip2 `descriptor.open-at` or wasip1 `path_open` interfaces by opening a file with `OpenFlags::TRUNCATE` oflag only, for example:
```rust
dir_descriptor.open_at(
PathFlags::empty(),
FILENAME,
OpenFlags::TRUNCATE,
DescriptorFlags::READ,
)
```
```rust
wasip1::path_open(
dir_fd,
0,
FILENAME,
wasip1::OFLAGS_TRUNC,
wasip1::RIGHTS_FD_READ,
0,
0
)
```
The root cause is that the clause that considered `OpenFlags::TRUNCATE` did not set `open_mode |= OpenMode::WRITE;`, used later in that function for the access control check against `FilePerms` for whether opening that file is permitted. With the bug corrected, these calls to `open-at` and `path_open` fail with `error-code.not-permitted` and `ERRNO_PERM` respectively.
The bug in `crates/wasi/src/filesystem.rs`, `Dir::open_at`, lines 967–969:
```rust
if oflags.contains(OpenFlags::TRUNCATE) {
opts.truncate(true).write(true);
}
```
and the single line fix is:
```rust
if oflags.contains(OpenFlags::TRUNCATE) {
opts.truncate(true).write(true);
open_mode |= OpenMode::WRITE;
}
```
Only wasmtime-wasi embeddings that use a combination of DirPerms::MUTATE with FilePerms::READ are affected by this bug, e.g. those that use in the `WasiCtxBuilder`:
```rust
builder.preopened_dir("readonly", "readonly", DirPerms::READ | DirPerms::MUTATE, FilePerms::READ);
```
In particular, the Wasmtime project's `wasmtime-cli`'s use of wasmtime-wasi is not affected, because it always sets `FilePerms::all()` for all preopens.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/security/advisories/GHSA-2r75-cxrj-cmph
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47261
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v24.0.9
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v36.0.10
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v44.0.2
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v45.0.0
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0149.html