Buffer overflow in Rgb-Rust Project
CVE-2020-25016
A safety violation was discovered in the rgb crate before 0.8.20 for Rust, leading to (for example) dereferencing of arbitrary pointers or disclosure of uninitialized memory. This occurs because structs can be treated as bytes for read and write operations.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.016 (73.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.1 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.
Affected products
- Rgb-rust_project Rgb-rust
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2020-25016?
- CVE-2020-25016 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Rgb-Rust Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2020-08-29.
- How severe is CVE-2020-25016?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2020-25016 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.