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CVE-2022-23636

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-23636 is a high-severity bug in the Wasmtime WebAssembly runtime (versions prior to 0.34.1 and 0.33.1) affecting the pooling instance allocator. It can lead to an invalid memory write (CWE-824) when failing to instantiate a module defining an 'externref' global, potentially resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the CVSS score is 8.1 (High), exploitation requires specific conditions and the use of 'externref' is currently uncommon. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.33.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*
0.34.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bytecodealliance:wasmtime:0.34.0:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.1MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.4
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0077 is in the 20th percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
rustpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: wasmtimeFixed in: 0.34.1
rustpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: wasmtimeFixed in: 0.33.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

rustGHSA-88xq-w8cq-xfg7medium

Invalid drop of partially-initialized instances in the pooling instance allocator for modules with defined `externref` globals

Feb 16, 2022

References

github.com / bytecodealliance/wasmtime/commit/886ecc562040bef61faf19438c22285c2d62403a
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / bytecodealliance/wasmtime/security/advisories/GHSA-88xq-w8cq-xfg7
MitigationThird Party Advisory