What is CVE-2020-36459?

CVE-2020-36459 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dces Project, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2021-08-08.

How severe is CVE-2020-36459?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.

RCE in Dces Project

CVE-2020-36459

An issue was discovered in the dces crate through 2020-12-09 for Rust. The World type is marked as Send but lacks bounds on its EntityStore and ComponentStore.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

Published 2021-08-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 64.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Dces Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0139.html (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/dces/RUSTSEC-2020-013… (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-36459?: CVE-2020-36459 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dces Project, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2021-08-08.
How severe is CVE-2020-36459?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.