GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-2gxj-qrp2-53jv Incorrect reliance on Trait memory layout in mopa

CRITICAL Published 2022-01-06 Modified 2023-06-13 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2021-45695
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
mopa
Severity
Critical
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Reviewed
2022-01-06

Affected packages

• crates.io mopa: <= 0.2.2 (no fix yet)

Description

The mopa crate redefines the deprecated TraitObject struct from core::raw. This is done to then transmute a reference to a trait object (&dyn Trait for any trait Trait) into this struct and retrieve the data field for the purpose of downcasting. This is used to implement downcast_ref_unchecked(), in terms of which downcast_ref() is also implemented. Same goes for mutable reference downcasting and Box downcasting. The Rust compiler explicitly reserves the right to change the memory layout of &dyn Trait for any trait Trait. The worst case scenario is that it swaps data and vtable, making an executable location breach and compromisation of ASLR possible, since reads from data would read vtable instead. Likewise, arbitrary code execution is also theoretically possible if reads of vtable generated by the compiler read data instead.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2021-45695 An issue was discovered in the mopa crate through 2021-06-01 for Rust. vulnerability

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