CVE-2025-15412

WebAssembly wabt wasm-decompile VarName out-of-bounds

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: January 1, 2026 at 08:32 PM UTC
Updated: October 7, 2026 at 11:10 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorWabt

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
PoC

Description

A security vulnerability has been detected in WebAssembly wabt up to 1.0.39. This issue affects the function wabt::Decompiler::VarName of the file /src/repro/wabt/bin/wasm-decompile of the component wasm-decompile. Such manipulation leads to out-of-bounds read. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. Unfortunately, the project has no active maintainer at the moment. In a reply to the issue report somebody recommended to the researcher to provide a PR himself.

Affected

Remediation

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References (6)

VDB EntryTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
Source: cverecord
https://vuldb.com/?id.339333
SignaturePermissions RequiredVDB Entry
Source: cverecord
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.339333
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
Source: cverecord
https://vuldb.com/?submit.719826
Issue TrackingExploitVendor Advisory
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/issues/2678
Product
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/

SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-125CWE-119

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