GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-6g2r-675j-hx59 xxhash-rust: Safe xxh3 custom-secret API accepts too-short secret in release
LOW
Official page ↗
- Ecosystem
- crates.io
- Packages
- xxhash-rust
- Severity
- Low
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
- Reviewed
- 2026-10-02
Affected packages
• crates.io xxhash-rust: < 0.8.16 → fixed in 0.8.16
Description
I have a minimized safe Rust witness for xxhash-rust 0.8.15.
Safe public route:
xxhash_rust::xxh3::xxh3_64_with_secret(&[0x41], &[])
The caller-side harness contains no unsafe code. Under release execution, the internal minimum custom-secret length predicate is enforced only by debug_assert!. Release-Miri reports construction of a fixed-width reference beyond the empty secret allocation.
Observed diagnostic:
Undefined Behavior: constructing invalid value of type &[u8; 4]: encountered a dangling reference
Local repair evidence: handling custom-secret slices shorter than the internal minimum before fixed-width secret reads makes the same safe short-secret harness pass under Linux release-Miri.
Local artifacts:
• vulnerable log: artifacts/logs/W-4332_xxhash_rust_short_secret_miri_release_linux_001.log
• repair log: artifacts/logs/differentials/W-4332_xxhash_rust_local_repair_miri_release_linux_001.log
• report: artifacts/reports/W-4332_xxhash_rust_short_secret_report.md
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness