Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-47218

containerd runwasi

runwasi: Forged Wasmtime precompiled OCI layer bypasses runwasi WASI sandbox

CVSS 4.0
9.3Critical

Official description

runwasi facilitates running Wasm and WASI workloads managed by containerd. Prior to 0.6.1, containerd-shim-wasmtime-v1 can treat Wasmtime precompiled bytes supplied directly in an OCI image layer as a trusted artifact from the precompile-cache path and deserialize them as native code. An attacker who causes a victim to run a crafted image can bypass WebAssembly validation and execute native code in the shim zygote process, gaining the filesystem, environment, credentials, networking, and Linux syscall access available to the workload container. Downstream shims built with runwasi's containerd-shim-wasm precompile-cache API are also affected if they implement Compiler and trust executable precompiled artifacts from OCI image layers; the 0.6.1 boundary applies specifically to containerd-shim-wasmtime and does not independently certify downstream product releases. The flaw escapes the WASI sandbox to the workload container boundary, but it does not by itself bypass container isolation or provide direct host code execution. This issue is fixed in version 0.6.1.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
9.3Critical 4.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (GitHub_M) CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
containerd runwasi < 0.6.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-10-15
Last updated
2026-10-15
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
GitHub_M
Kolun priority
22 · Low

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.39%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
33.8%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-502
    Deserialization of Untrusted Data