CVE-2021-27378

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-27378
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-27378.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-27378
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2021-02-18T04:15:11.823Z
Modified
2026-02-04T02:47:34.304333Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in the randcore crate before 0.6.2 for Rust. Because readu32into and readu64_into mishandle certain buffer-length checks, a random number generator may be seeded with too little data.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/rust-random/rand

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/rust-random/rand
Events
Introduced
98e220c30234370fb04ba928799ebd9727fc049a
Fixed
3a03c9eb5350e03a3f540dba2ee34e0984f2c2c2

Affected versions

0.*
0.8.0
0.8.1
0.8.2
0.8.3
rand_chacha-0.*
rand_chacha-0.3.0
rand_core-0.*
rand_core-0.6.0
rand_core-0.6.1
rand_distr-0.*
rand_distr-0.4.0
rand_hc-0.*
rand_hc-0.3.0
rand_pcg-0.*
rand_pcg-0.3.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-27378.json"