Reported

September 21, 2020

Issued

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

Package

atom (crates.io)

Type

INFO Unsound

Categories

• thread-safety

Aliases

• CVE-2020-35897
• GHSA-9cg2-2j2h-59v9

References

• 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.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.