CVE-2018-21000 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in the safe-transmute crate before 0.10.1 for Rust. A constructor's arguments are in the wrong order, causing heap memory corruption.

Published: 2019-08-26

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: 2.0% Low

KEV: No

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:safe-transmute_project:safe-transmute:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-1518	An issue was discovered in the safe-transmute crate before 0.10.1 for Rust. A constructor's arguments are in the wrong order, causing heap memory corruption.
Github GHSA	GHSA-2v78-j59h-fmpf	Heap overflow or corruption in safe-transmute

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01977.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/safe-transmute-rs/pull/36
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0013.html

History

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Subscriptions

Safe-transmute Project Safe-transmute

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-08-26T14:29:49.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T12:19:27.130Z

Reserved: 2019-08-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-21000

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-08-26T15:15:11.517

Modified: 2026-06-17T01:53:54.837

Link: CVE-2018-21000

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-119
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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