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critical 9.8

CVE-2018-20996 json

Double free in crossbeam

published 7y ago modified 3mo ago also GHSA-c3cw-c387-pj65 , RUSTSEC-2018-0009 , EUVD-2021-1671

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in the crossbeam crate before 0.4.1 for Rust. There is a double free because of destructor mishandling.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io crossbeam 0.4.1
  • crossbeam_project crossbeam 0.4.1

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Exploit prediction

1.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
OSV 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io crossbeam
>=0.4.0, <0.4.1
0.4.1

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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