RUSTSEC-2020-0044

Unsafe Send implementation in Atom allows data races

Reported

September 21, 2020

Issued

October 2, 2020 (last modified: October 19, 2021)

Package

atom (crates.io)

Type

INFO Unsound

Categories

thread-safety

Aliases

CVE-2020-35897

Details

https://github.com/slide-rs/atom/issues/13

CVSS Score

4.7 MEDIUM

CVSS Details

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: High
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: High

CVSS Vector

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

Patched

>=0.3.6

Description

The atom crate contains a security issue revolving around its implementation of the Send trait. It incorrectly allows any arbitrary type to be sent across threads potentially leading to use-after-free issues through memory races.