RUSTSEC-2021-0041

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Source
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0041
Import Source
https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/blob/osv/crates/RUSTSEC-2021-0041.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RUSTSEC-2021-0041
Aliases
Published
2021-03-18T12:00:00Z
Modified
2023-11-08T03:56:44.037848Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Denial of service through parsing payloads with too big exponent
Details

The parse_duration::parse function allows for parsing duration strings with exponents like 5e5s where under the hood, the <code>BigInt</code> type along with the <code>pow</code> function are used for such payloads. Passing an arbitrarily big exponent makes the parse_duration::parse function to process the payload for a very long time taking up CPU and memory.

This allows an attacker to cause a DoS if the parse_duration::parse function is used to process untrusted input.

Database specific 
{
    "license": "CC0-1.0"
}
References

Affected packages

crates.io / parse_duration

Package

Name
parse_duration
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Purl
pkg:cargo/parse_duration

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0.0.0-0

Ecosystem specific 

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

Database specific

informational

null

categories

[
    "denial-of-service"
]

cvss

"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"