What is CVE-2020-35896?

CVE-2020-35896 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ws-Rs Project, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-12-31.

How severe is CVE-2020-35896?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2020-35896 known to be exploited?

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

Resource exhaustion in Ws-Rs Project

CVE-2020-35896

An issue was discovered in the ws crate through 2020-09-25 for Rust. The outgoing buffer is not properly limited, leading to a remote memory-consumption attack.

EPSS: 0.013 (68.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Ws-rs_project Ws-rs
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-35896?: CVE-2020-35896 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ws-Rs Project, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-12-31.
How severe is CVE-2020-35896?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-35896 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.