Vulnerability · Published Aug 10, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-38512

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-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 1.8% (higher than 79% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High

Exploit odds (30 days)1.8%top 21.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue was discovered in the actix-http crate before 3.0.0-beta.9 for Rust. HTTP/1 request smuggling (aka HRS) can occur, potentially leading to credential disclosure.

Affected products (as reported)

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

References

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0081.html x_refsource_MISC
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/actix-http/RUSTSEC-2021-0081.md x_refsource_MISC
FEDORA-2021-98066afb33 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA