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CVE-2018-20992
An issue was discovered in the claxon crate before 0.4.1 for Rust. Uninitialized memory can be exposed because certain decode buffer sizes…
Medium6.5EPSS 1.4%
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- mitre
Description
An issue was discovered in the claxon crate before 0.4.1 for Rust. Uninitialized memory can be exposed because certain decode buffer sizes are mishandled.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 28% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- crates.ioclaxonGHSA-8c6g-4xc5-w96c (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0004.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-8c6g-4xc5-w96c (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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