Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-36317

RCE

Title: Rust-Lang Rust RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-36317.

CWE Category CWE-787

Published Date Apr 11, 2021

Modified Date Nov 21, 2024

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.19%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-36317: In the standard library in Rust before 1.49.0, String::retain() function has a panic safety problem. It allows creation of a non-UTF-8 Rust string when the provided closure panics. This bug could result in a memory safety violation when other string APIs assume that UTF-8 encoding is used on the same string.

Impacted Vendors

rust-lang 1

Reference Links

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/78498 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/78499 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/78498 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/78499

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2020-36317 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

November 21, 2024 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 11, 2021 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.