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CVE-2020-25575

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NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25575

CGA ID

CGA-89pc-9mg9-hpc4

Severity

9.8

Critical

CVSS V3

Description

An issue was discovered in the failure crate through 0.1.5 for Rust. It may introduce "compatibility hazards" in some applications, and has a type confusion flaw when downcasting. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. NOTE: This may overlap CVE-2019-25010

References

  • https://images.chainguard.dev/security/CGA-89pc-9mg9-hpc4
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jq66-xh47-j9f3
  • https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0036.html
  • https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/failure-to-fehler/
  • https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/failure/issues/336
  • https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-25575

Affected packages

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