> TritonInfoSec News
Home / Oct 27, 2026 / Story
0
#5 The Hacker News general October 26, 2026 at 11:52 UTC

Two Critical Wasmtime Flaws Could Let Malicious WebAssembly Modules Escape Sandboxes

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

Two critical sandbox-escape vulnerabilities in Wasmtime, a widely-used WebAssembly runtime, could allow a malicious Wasm module to break out of its isolation boundary; one flaw is specific to ARM64 systems. Fixed versions have been released, and the issue is significant for organizations embedding Wasmtime in server-side or cloud-native applications where untrusted Wasm modules may be executed.

Read full article → https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/two-critical-was…

Relevance score: 76.0/100

# More from October 27

  1. 1
    Former pentester used ARTEX AI to steal 8.2 million data records BleepingComputer
  2. 2
    Attackers Use Microsoft Teams IT Support Scams to Deploy Malware and Ransomware The Hacker News
  3. 3
    'Gheist' Weaponizes GitHub Tokens to Steal Cloud Secrets Dark Reading
  4. 4
    Critical 'HTTP2Shell' Brotli vulnerability triggers emergency patches BleepingComputer
  5. 6
    Malicious File in Downloads Folder Tries to Trick AI Coding Agent Into Installing Malware The Hacker News
  6. 7
    Dutch Police Arrest Two Over NFC Relay Attacks That Drained $400,000+ From Bank Accounts SecurityWeek
  7. 8
    Cybersecurity Issue Forces a Major New Mexico Hospital to Divert Patients and Close Clinics SecurityWeek
  8. 9
    University of Copenhagen data breach exposes data of 525,000 people BleepingComputer
  9. 10
    Bias in Qwen3-Coder Model Schneier on Security