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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-29934

Attackers can read the contents of uninitialized memory locations via a user-provided Read operation.

HIGH 7.3EPSS 0.90%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.90%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in PartialReader in the uu_od crate before 0.0.4 for Rust. Attackers can read the contents of uninitialized memory locations via a user-provided Read operation.

CVSS 3.1
7.3 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS
0.90% probability · 58th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-125, CWE-908
Affected
uu od project/uu od
Source
cve@mitre.org

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