What is CVE-2021-29932?

CVE-2021-29932 is a high-severity vulnerability in Parse Duration Project, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2021-04-01.

How severe is CVE-2021-29932?

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

Resource exhaustion in Parse Duration Project

CVE-2021-29932

An issue was discovered in the parse_duration crate through 2021-03-18 for Rust. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a duration string with a large exponent.

EPSS: 0.010 (58.4th 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:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Parse_duration_project Parse_duration
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-29932?: CVE-2021-29932 is a high-severity vulnerability in Parse Duration Project, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2021-04-01.
How severe is CVE-2021-29932?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.