Vulnerability · Published Jan 29, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-26305

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.7% (higher than 77% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)1.7%top 22.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue was discovered in Deserializer::read_vec in the cdr crate before 0.2.4 for Rust. A user-provided Read implementation can gain access to the old contents of newly allocated heap memory, violating soundness.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0012.html x_refsource_MISC