VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2019-25004
Arbitrary bytes can be reinterpreted as a bool, defeating soundness.
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 0.58%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.58%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
An issue was discovered in the flatbuffers crate before 0.6.1 for Rust. Arbitrary bytes can be reinterpreted as a bool, defeating soundness.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.58% probability · 48th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- google/flatbuffers
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 0.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0028.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0028.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.