RUSTSEC-2020-0122

beef::Cow lacks a Sync bound on its Send trait allowing for data races

Reported

October 28, 2020

Issued

January 26, 2021 (last modified: June 13, 2023)

Package

beef (crates.io)

Type

Vulnerability

Categories

Aliases

References

https://github.com/maciejhirsz/beef/issues/37

CVSS Score

8.1 HIGH

CVSS Details

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: High
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact: High
Integrity Impact: High
Availability Impact: High

CVSS Vector

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

Patched

>=0.5.0

Description

Affected versions of this crate did not have a T: Sync bound in the Send impl for Cow<'_, T, U>. This allows users to create data races by making Cow contain types that are (Send && !Sync) like Cell<_> or RefCell<_>.

Such data races can lead to memory corruption.

The flaw was corrected in commit d1c7658 by adding trait bounds T: Sync and T::Owned: Send to the Send impl for Cow<'_, T, U>.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.