What is CVE-2020-35881?

CVE-2020-35881 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Traitobject Project, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-12-31.

How severe is CVE-2020-35881?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2020-35881 known to be exploited?

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

Buffer overflow in Traitobject Project

CVE-2020-35881

An issue was discovered in the traitobject crate through 2020-06-01 for Rust. It has false expectations about fat pointers, possibly causing memory corruption in, for example, Rust 2.x.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.017 (75.0th 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

Traitobject_project Traitobject
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

Public proof-of-concept exploits

Artisan-Lab/Rust-memory-safety-bugs

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-35881?: CVE-2020-35881 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Traitobject Project, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-12-31.
How severe is CVE-2020-35881?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-35881 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.