GHSA-2r75-cxrj-cmph
wasmtime-wasi: WASI path_open(TRUNCATE) bypasses `FilePerms::WRITE` host restriction
Details
## 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.
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Affected packages
37.0.0Fixed in: 44.0.2Upgrade wasmtime-wasi to 44.0.2 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).
25.0.0Fixed in: 36.0.10Upgrade wasmtime-wasi to 36.0.10 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).
0Fixed in: 24.0.9Upgrade wasmtime-wasi to 24.0.9 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).
References
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/security/advisories/GHSA-2r75-cxrj-cmph[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47261[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v24.0.9[WEB]
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v36.0.10[WEB]
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v44.0.2[WEB]
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/releases/tag/v45.0.0[WEB]
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0149.html[WEB]