What is CVE-2018-20992?

CVE-2018-20992 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Claxon Project, classified under Use of Uninitialized Resource. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-08-26.

How severe is CVE-2018-20992?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2018-20992 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Claxon Project

CVE-2018-20992

An issue was discovered in the claxon crate before 0.4.1 for Rust. Uninitialized memory can be exposed because certain decode buffer sizes are mishandled.

EPSS: 0.014 (69.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Claxon_project Claxon — versions 0.4.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-908 — Use of Uninitialized Resource

Public proof-of-concept exploits

Artisan-Lab/Rust-memory-safety-bugs

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-20992?: CVE-2018-20992 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Claxon Project, classified under Use of Uninitialized Resource. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-08-26.
How severe is CVE-2018-20992?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-20992 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.