Reported

June 23, 2020

Issued

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

Package

linked-hash-map (crates.io)

Type

INFO Unsound

Aliases

• CVE-2020-25573
• GHSA-r43h-gmrm-h5c9

References

• https://github.com/contain-rs/linked-hash-map/pull/100

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

• >=0.5.3

Description

Affected versions of this crate called mem::uninitialized() to create a NonNull<T>, which is undefined behavior.

The flaw was corrected by avoiding the use of mem::uninitialized().

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.