CVE-2021-26958
Published Feb 9, 2021
Last updated 4 years ago
Overview
- Description
- An issue was discovered in the xcb crate through 2021-02-04 for Rust. It has a soundness violation because transmutation to the wrong type can happen after xcb::base::cast_event uses std::mem::transmute to return a reference to an arbitrary type.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 8.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 2.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.5
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 8
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-252
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:xcb_project:xcb:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "1B2CB27A-1F8D-47C3-ACA1-A2DB333C16DE",
"versionEndIncluding": "2021-02-04"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]