What is CVE-2021-26953?

CVE-2021-26953 is a high-severity vulnerability in Postscript Project, classified under Use of Uninitialized Resource. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2021-02-09.

How severe is CVE-2021-26953?

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

Vulnerability in Postscript Project

CVE-2021-26953

An issue was discovered in the postscript crate before 0.14.0 for Rust. It might allow attackers to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized memory locations via a user-provided Read implementation.

EPSS: 0.015 (71.4th 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:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Postscript_project Postscript
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-908 — Use of Uninitialized Resource

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-26953?: CVE-2021-26953 is a high-severity vulnerability in Postscript Project, classified under Use of Uninitialized Resource. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2021-02-09.
How severe is CVE-2021-26953?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.