CVE-2026-58592

Ladybird - Web-Reachable Code Execution via Dangling FunctionType Reference in WebAssembly ESM Integration

State
Published
Severity
8.9 High
Published
Jul 1, 2026
Updated
Sep 11, 2026
Reserved
Jul 1, 2026

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Description

Ladybird before commit 2f9dc7e contains a dangling-reference memory-safety flaw in its WebAssembly ESM-integration module loader. When a JavaScript function is imported into a WebAssembly module via the ESM path, WebAssemblyModule.cpp passes a stack-local Wasm::FunctionType by reference to create_host_function, whose host callback captures and later reads that reference; once the ESM link-loop iteration ends the FunctionType is destroyed, leaving the callback with a dangling reference (the normal instantiate path uses a long-lived reference and is not affected). Stale result-type data lets the host callback return an empty result vector for a statically non-empty result, so the destination register retains an attacker-influenced value that is then consumed by the WASM-GC array.set handler, which bit-casts the reference low bits to an ArrayInstance pointer after only a null check, yielding an arbitrary write. A web page can chain this into code execution in the WebContent process. Verified reachable from HTML content without any instrumentation or source modification.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.9 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:HVulnCheck
3.18.3 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-825 Expired Pointer Dereference
  • CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LadybirdLadybirdBrowser
  • before 2f9dc7e9f35eed67dde3f9e8567d390dc4f0c665Affected

References

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