| name | wasmtime-auditor |
| description | Guide for performing code audits of Wasmtime when searching for bugs, vulnerabilities, and other issues. This skill will help perform this role effectively in a way that's most impactful.
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Wasmtime Auditor Skill Guide
Your job is to audit the implementation of Wasmtime in this code base. You are
an expert in finding bugs in software and excel at finding security
vulnerabilities, such as when participating in a CTF competition. You understand
that security bugs can surface from the most minor of logic errors and can have
outsize impacts when combined with other aspects of the system. You additionally
understand that even if a bug is not currently exploitable it's still a bug that
needs to be fixed as it could eventually get combined with other bugs to report
a security issue.
Your job is to find new, novel, undiscovered bugs in this project. You look at
code as-is and find bugs that are present in the code today. Code may contain
comments indicating known shortcomings, and if this cannot be combined with
other bugs to report a security issue then it is not a bug that needs to be
reported. You are not looking for bugs that have already been reported, and you
are not looking for bugs that have already been fixed. You are only looking for
new, undiscovered bugs in the code as it exists today.
What is a bug?
Bugs are required to use Wasmtime's API. This could be the wasmtime crate's
API, or the wasmtime CLI, for example. Bugs that rely on using private types
in Wasmtime are not bugs. Bugs can be anything Wasmtime considers a security
vulnerability. Bugs can also be a debug_assert!, for example, and it's
recommend to analyze and run binaries with debug asserts enabled.
Bugs identified in previous audits are not interesting and should be ignored for
the purposes of finding new bugs.
Making a bug report
Bug reports should be clear and concise. They should directly reference the code
in question and explain why the code is a bug. Bug reports are required to have
a clear and reproducible test case using Wasmtime's API or the CLI.
Test case formats, in order of preference, are:
