GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-9pwq-gcrx-wghh Buffa has a Use-After-Free in OwnedView via Unsound 'static Lifetime Promotion in Deref
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-55406
- Ecosystem
- crates.io
- Packages
- buffa
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200, CWE-416
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-28
Affected packages
• crates.io buffa: < 0.7.0 → fixed in 0.7.0
Description
A soundness bug in `buffa`'s `OwnedView` allowed safe Rust code to trigger a use-after-free. The `OwnedView::decode` constructor transmuted a borrowed slice to `&'static [u8]`, and the `Deref` implementation exposed the promoted `'static` lifetime on borrowed view fields (such as `&'static str` and `&'static [u8]`) to callers. Because these references appeared to be `'static`, the borrow checker permitted them to outlive the `OwnedView`; once the `OwnedView` was dropped and its backing buffer freed, those references became dangling, enabling memory corruption, information disclosure of freed heap contents, and cross-thread misuse — all without any `unsafe` code in the calling application. Users are advised to update to the latest patched version of buffa.
Thank you to hackerone.com/suul for reporting this issue.
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Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-55406 Buffa is a pure-Rust Protocol Buffers implementation with first-class protobuf editions support. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/anthropics/buffa/security/advisories/GHSA-9pwq-gcrx-wghh web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55406 advisory
- https://github.com/anthropics/buffa/pull/154 web
- https://github.com/anthropics/buffa/commit/7dcf50a1a40eca6ed8d6c6dd59f4310aa0d68b0e web
- https://github.com/anthropics/buffa package
- https://github.com/anthropics/buffa/releases/tag/v0.7.0 web