Vulnerability in Failure Project

CVE-2020-25575

An issue was discovered in the failure crate through 0.1.5 for Rust. It may introduce "compatibility hazards" in some applications, and has a type confusion flaw when downcasting. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. NOTE: This may overlap CVE-2019-25010

EPSS: 0.029 (85.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-25575?
CVE-2020-25575 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Failure Project, classified under Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type (Type Confusion). CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-09-14.
How severe is CVE-2020-25575?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-25575 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.