Vulnerability · Published Jan 1, 2026 · Assigned by VulDB
CVE-2025-15411WebAssembly wabt wasm-decompile InsertNode memory corruption
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity memory corruption in wabt from WebAssembly. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 11% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A weakness has been identified in WebAssembly wabt up to 1.0.39. This vulnerability affects the function wabt::AST::InsertNode of the file /src/repro/wabt/bin/wasm-decompile of the component wasm-decompile. This manipulation causes memory corruption. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks. 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 packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | wabt | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-15411 |
| Debian:13 | wabt | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-15411 |
| Debian:14 | wabt | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-15411 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | wabt | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15411 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | wabt | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15411 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | wabt | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15411 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | wabt | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15411 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | wabt | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15411 |
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| WebAssembly | wabt | 1.0.01.0.11.0.21.0.31.0.41.0.51.0.61.0.7 |
Weakness: CWE-119 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R
References
- VDB-339332 | WebAssembly wabt wasm-decompile InsertNode memory corruption vdb-entry, technical-description
- VDB-339332 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA) signature, permissions-required
- Submit #719825 | WebAssembly wabt 1.0.39 and master-branch Heap-based Buffer Overflow third-party-advisory
- Submit #736404 | WebAssembly wabt 1.0.39 and master-branch Use After Free (Duplicate) third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/issues/2679 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/oneafter/1208/blob/main/af1 exploit
- https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/ product