GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-9pwq-gcrx-wghh Buffa has a Use-After-Free in OwnedView via Unsound 'static Lifetime Promotion in Deref

MEDIUM Published 2026-08-28 Modified 2026-08-28 Official page ↗
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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-55406 Buffa is a pure-Rust Protocol Buffers implementation with first-class protobuf editions support. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
  • CWE-416 Use After Free weakness

References