Dangling reference in flatbuffers · CVE-2020-35864 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Dangling reference in flatbuffers

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 25, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 13, 2023

Package

flatbuffers (Rust)

Affected versions

>= 0.4.0, < 2.0.0

Patched versions

2.0.0

Description

An issue was discovered in the flatbuffers crate through 2020-04-11 for Rust. read_scalar (and read_scalar_at) can transmute values without unsafe blocks.

References

Reviewed Aug 19, 2021

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 25, 2021

Last updated Jun 13, 2023

Severity

High

7.5

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H