RUSTSEC-2026-0391

Data from an abandoned stream leaks into the next stream on a reused context

Reported

October 16, 2026

Issued

October 26, 2026

Package

zstd (crates.io)

Type

Vulnerability

Categories

memory-exposure

Keywords

#information-leak #context-reuse

References

Patched

>=0.14.3

Unaffected

<0.13.2

Affected Functions

Version

zstd::stream::raw::Decoder::with_context

>=0.13.2, <0.14.3

zstd::stream::raw::Encoder::with_context

>=0.13.2, <0.14.3

Description

The with_context constructors of the stream encoders and decoders used the borrowed context as it was. When a stream was abandoned on a context, for example an encoder dropped before finish() after an error, whatever it left there was carried into the next stream: the input buffered by the previous encoder (up to 128 KiB, or all of it with zstdmt) became the start of the next frame, and a decoder returned undelivered output of the previous stream.

An application reusing one context for data that must stay separate, such as different users' requests, could disclose one user's plaintext to another. Whoever supplies the data can cause the abandonment with invalid input.

The flaw was corrected by resetting the context's session in with_context.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.