{"id":"CVE-2021-26953","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-26953","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:20:20.637Z","title":"It might allow attackers to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized memory locations via a user-provided Read implementation.","description":"An issue was discovered in the postscript crate before 0.14.0 for Rust. It might allow attackers to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized memory locations via a user-provided Read implementation.","published":"2021-02-09T23:15:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:44:04.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-908"],"affected":["postscript project/postscript"],"epss":{"score":0.01489,"percentile":0.73914,"date":"2026-10-26","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 (1.49%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0017.html","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0017.html","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-26953","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."}