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In the standard library in Rust before 1.50.3, there is...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 11, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the standard library in Rust before 1.50.3, there is an optimization for joining strings that can cause uninitialized bytes to be exposed (or the program to crash) if the borrowed string changes after its length is checked.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 14, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Apr 11, 2024

Severity

High
8.2
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-36323

GHSA ID

GHSA-9v8g-q8xx-7374

Source code

No known source code

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