{"id":"CVE-2018-25025","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-25025","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:26:40.881Z","title":"It can unsoundly extend the lifetime of a string, leading to memory corruption.","description":"An issue was discovered in the actix-web crate before 0.7.15 for Rust. It can unsoundly extend the lifetime of a string, leading to memory corruption.","published":"2021-12-27T00:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:54:33.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-787"],"affected":["actix/actix-web"],"epss":{"score":0.01331,"percentile":0.70921,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.33%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/actix-web/RUSTSEC-2018-0019.md","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0019.html","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/actix-web/RUSTSEC-2018-0019.md","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0019.html","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-25025","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."}