Rust Failure Crate Vulnerable to Type confusion · CVE-2019-25010 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Rust Failure Crate Vulnerable to Type confusion

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 25, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 9, 2023

Package

failure (Rust)

Affected versions

<= 0.1.8

Patched versions

None

Description

Safe Rust code can implement malfunctioning __private_get_type_id__ and cause type confusion when downcasting, which is an undefined behavior.

Users who derive Fail trait are not affected.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database

Dec 31, 2020

Reviewed Aug 19, 2021

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 25, 2021

Last updated Nov 9, 2023

Severity

Critical

9.8

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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