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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-28033

There can be a drop of uninitialized memory if a certain deserialization method panics.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.17%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.17%). 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 byte_struct crate before 0.6.1 for Rust. There can be a drop of uninitialized memory if a certain deserialization method panics.

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
1.17% probability · 66th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-908
Affected
byte struct project/byte struct
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.