VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-20004

MutexGuards can be used across threads with any types, allowing for memory safety issues through race conditions.

MEDIUM 5.9EPSS 0.80%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.80%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

In the standard library in Rust before 1.19.0, there is a synchronization problem in the MutexGuard object. MutexGuards can be used across threads with any types, allowing for memory safety issues through race conditions.

CVSS 3.1: 5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS: 0.80% probability · 54th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-362
Affected: rust-lang/rust
Source: cve@mitre.org

References

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/41622Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/41624Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/41622Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/41624Patch, Third Party Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.