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high 7.8

CVE-2020-36210 json

Free of uninitialized memory in autorand

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-cgmg-2v6m-fjg7 , RUSTSEC-2020-0103 , EUVD-2021-1680

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in the autorand crate before 0.2.3 for Rust. Because of impl Random on arrays, uninitialized memory can be dropped when a panic occurs, leading to memory corruption.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io autorand 0.2.3
  • autorand_project autorand 0.2.3

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Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • rustsec.org https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0103.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
OSV 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io autorand
<0.2.3
>=0.0.0-0, <0.2.3
0.2.3

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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