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Two Critical Wasmtime Flaws Could Let Malicious WebAssembly Modules Escape Sandboxes

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Wasmtime maintainers report two critical flaws in the WebAssembly runtime allowing a malicious module to escape its sandbox, with one flaw affecting only ARM64 systems.

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Two critical flaws in Wasmtime, a WebAssembly runtime that can be built into other software, could allow a malicious WebAssembly module to escape the sandbox intended to contain it, the project's maintainers say. An attacker would first need a vulnerable Wasmtime build to compile a module they control, and one of the flaws affects only ARM64 systems. Fixed versions were released on