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CVE-2021-45690
An issue was discovered in the messagepack-rs crate through 2021-01-26 for Rust. deserialize_binary may read from uninitialized memory…
Critical9.8EPSS 1.2%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
An issue was discovered in the messagepack-rs crate through 2021-01-26 for Rust. deserialize_binary may read from uninitialized memory locations.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- crates.iomessagepack-rsGHSA-vw5m-qw2r-m923 (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0092.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/messagepack-rs/RUSTSEC-2021-0092.md (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-vw5m-qw2r-m923 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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