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pywasm3 contains a heap buffer overflow which leads to segmentation fault

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 6, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 9, 2026

Package

pip pywasm3 (pip)

Affected versions

<= 0.5.0

Patched versions

None

Description

wasm3 v0.5.0 was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow which leads to segmentation fault via the function "DeallocateSlot" in wasm3/source/m3_compile.c.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 6, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 6, 2024
Reviewed Jun 9, 2026
Last updated Jun 9, 2026

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(78th percentile)

Weaknesses

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2024-34249

GHSA ID

GHSA-mq9p-qw76-q6h7

Source code

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