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October 26th, 2026 at 11:52 AMTwo Critical Wasmtime Flaws Could Let Malicious WebAssembly Modules Escape Sandboxes
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
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