What is CVE-2020-35916?

CVE-2020-35916 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Image-Rs Image, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-12-31.

How severe is CVE-2020-35916?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2020-35916 known to be exploited?

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

Resource exhaustion in Image-Rs Image

CVE-2020-35916

An issue was discovered in the image crate before 0.23.12 for Rust. A Mutable reference has immutable provenance. (In the case of LLVM, the IR may be always correct.)

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.004 (31.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Image-rs Image
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Public proof-of-concept exploits

Artisan-Lab/Rust-memory-safety-bugs

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-35916?: CVE-2020-35916 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Image-Rs Image, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-12-31.
How severe is CVE-2020-35916?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-35916 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.