Critical severity · published Sep 14, 2020
CVE-2020-25575
An issue was discovered in the failure crate through 0.1.5 for Rust
9.8
CVSS
2.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.9% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FA
Failure · Failure Project
through 0.1.8 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25575
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25575
Exploit
https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/failure-to-fehler/
Patch
https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/failure/issues/336
Vendor Advisory
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0036.html
More from Failure
9.8
CVE-2019-25010
An issue was discovered in the failure crate through 2019-11-13 for Rust