Reported

September 1, 2019

Issued

October 1, 2020 (last modified: June 13, 2023)

Package

chttp (crates.io)

Type

Vulnerability

Keywords

#memory-management #memory-corruption

Aliases

• CVE-2019-16140
• GHSA-5rrv-m36h-qwf8

References

• https://github.com/sagebind/isahc/issues/2

CVSS Score

9.8 CRITICAL

CVSS Details

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Patched

• >=0.1.3

Unaffected

• <0.1.1

Description

The From implementation for Vec was not properly implemented, returning a vector backed by freed memory. This could lead to memory corruption or be exploited to cause undefined behavior.

A fix was published in version 0.1.3.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.