RUSTSEC-2018-0006

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Source

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0006

Import Source

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RUSTSEC-2018-0006

Aliases

Published

2018-09-17T12:00:00Z

Modified

2023-11-08T04:00:13.493088Z

Severity

7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

Uncontrolled recursion leads to abort in deserialization

Details

Affected versions of this crate did not prevent deep recursion while deserializing data structures.

This allows an attacker to make a YAML file with deeply nested structures that causes an abort while deserializing it.

The flaw was corrected by checking the recursion depth.

Note: clap 2.33 is not affected by this because it uses yaml-rust in a way that doesn't trigger the vulnerability. More specifically:

The input to the YAML parser is always trusted - is included at compile time via include_str!.
The nesting level is never deep enough to trigger the overflow in practice (at most 5).

Database specific

{
    "license": "CC0-1.0"
}

References

Affected packages

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    "affected_functions": null,
    "affects": {
        "os": [],
        "functions": [],
        "arch": []
    }
}

{
    "cvss": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "informational": null,
    "categories": []
}