# RUSTSEC-2026-0363: Component-model handle tables are capped only per instance and charged to no limit

- Also known as: GHSA-Q554-3CJC-RX7P
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 36.0.18, 48.0.6, 49.0.3
- Published: 2026-10-14 · Updated: 2026-10-14

## Summary

Wasmtime, the WebAssembly runtime from the Bytecode Alliance, is affected when running WebAssembly component-model code. Because handle tables are limited only per instance and not counted against any overall resource limit, a guest can allocate far more handles than intended, potentially exhausting host memory.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- wasmtime (crates.io): from 0.0.0-0, fixed in 36.0.18; from 37.0.0, fixed in 48.0.6; from 49.0.0, fixed in 49.0.3

## Description

This is an entry in the RustSec database for the Wasmtime security advisory located at https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/security/advisories/GHSA-q554-3cjc-rx7p For more information see the GitHub-hosted security advisory.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wasmtime, upgrade to a fixed version (36.0.18, 48.0.6, 49.0.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://crates.io/crates/wasmtime
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0363.html
- https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/14732

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