VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-25575
NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 2.87%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.87%). 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 failure crate through 0.1.5 for Rust. It may introduce "compatibility hazards" in some applications, and has a type confusion flaw when downcasting. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. NOTE: This may overlap CVE-2019-25010
- 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
- 2.87% probability · 86th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-843
- Affected
- failure project/failure
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/failure-to-fehler/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/failure/issues/336Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0036.htmlVendor Advisory
- https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/failure-to-fehler/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/failure/issues/336Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0036.htmlVendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.