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critical 9.8

CVE-2021-45690 json

Deserialization functions pass uninitialized memory to user-provided Read

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also CVE-2021-45691 , CVE-2021-45692 , CVE-2021-45693 , GHSA-hr52-f9vp-582c , GHSA-jqjj-r4qp-x2gh , GHSA-jwfh-j623-m97h , GHSA-m325-rxjv-pwph , GHSA-vw5m-qw2r-m923 , RUSTSEC-2021-0092 , EUVD-2022-0709

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in the messagepack-rs crate through 2021-01-26 for Rust. deserialize_binary may read from uninitialized memory locations.

Patch / fix

  • messagepack-rs_project messagepack-rs 0.8.1

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Exploit prediction

1.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/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 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/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 messagepack-rs
<=0.8.1
>=0.0.0-0
no fix listed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource

References

Sources

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