Safety Violation in rgb Crate for Rust
CVE-2020-25016

9.1CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor

Rgb-rust Project

Status
Rgb-rust
Vendor
CVE Published:
29 August 2020

What is CVE-2020-25016?

A safety violation was identified in the rgb crate for Rust, specifically affecting versions before 0.8.20. This issue allows for the dereferencing of arbitrary pointers or disclosure of uninitialized memory, as structs within the crate can be manipulated as byte sequences during read and write operations. As such, developers using this crate should take precautions to mitigate potential risks associated with improper memory management.

References

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0029.html
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https://github.com/kornelski/rust-rgb/issues/35
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.1
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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