{"id":"CVE-2018-20992","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-20992","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T05:01:37.048Z","title":"Uninitialized memory can be exposed because certain decode buffer sizes are mishandled.","description":"An issue was discovered in the claxon crate before 0.4.1 for Rust. Uninitialized memory can be exposed because certain decode buffer sizes are mishandled.","published":"2019-08-26T13:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:53:54.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-908"],"affected":["claxon project/claxon"],"epss":{"score":0.01372,"percentile":0.71858,"date":"2026-10-28","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.37%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0004.html","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0004.html","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20992","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}