{
  "id": 16607745,
  "title": "Two Critical Wasmtime Flaws Could Let Malicious WebAssembly Modules Escape Sandboxes",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/two-critical-wasmtime-flaws-could-let-malicious-webassembly-modules",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-26T11:52:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/two-critical-wasmtime-flaws-could-let.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Two critical flaws in Wasmtime, a WebAssembly runtime that can be built into other software, could allow a malicious WebAssembly module to escape the sandbox intended to contain it, the project's maintainers say. An attacker would first need a vulnerable Wasmtime build to compile a module they control, and one of the flaws affects only ARM64 systems. Fixed versions were released on",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}