GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-r98r-j25q-rmpr Rust Failure Crate Vulnerable to Type confusion

CRITICAL Published 2021-08-25 Modified 2023-08-25 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2019-25010
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
failure
Severity
Critical
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-843
Reviewed
2021-08-19

Affected packages

• crates.io failure: <= 0.1.8 (no fix yet)

Description

Safe Rust code can implement malfunctioning `__private_get_type_id__` and cause type confusion when downcasting, which is an undefined behavior. Users who derive Fail trait are not affected.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2019-25010 An issue was discovered in the failure crate through 2019-11-13 for Rust. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type weakness

References