Reported

November 13, 2019

Issued

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

Package

failure (crates.io)

Type

INFO Unsound

Keywords

#unsound

Aliases

• CVE-2019-25010
• CVE-2020-25575
• GHSA-jq66-xh47-j9f3
• GHSA-r98r-j25q-rmpr

References

• https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/failure/issues/336

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

no patched versions

Affected Functions

Version

failure::Fail::__private_get_type_id__

• >=0.1.0

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.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.