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CVE-2021-45680

Date: December 26, 2021

An issue was discovered in the vec-const crate before 2.0.0 for Rust. It tries to construct a Vec from a pointer to a const slice, leading to memory corruption. Converted from WS-2021-0358, on 2022-11-07.

Language: RUST

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (7)

Url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/vec-const/RUSTSEC-2021-0082.md

Url: https://crates.io/crates/vec-const

Url: https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0082.html

Url: https://github.com/Eolu/vec-const/issues/1#issuecomment-898908241

Url: https://github.com/Eolu/vec-const

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45680

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-45680

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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