Description
In the standard library in Rust before 1.52.0, there is an optimization for joining strings that can cause uninitialized bytes to be exposed (or the program to crash) if the borrowed string changes after its length is checked.
Published: 2021-04-14
Score: 8.2 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-23862 In the standard library in Rust before 1.52.0, there is an optimization for joining strings that can cause uninitialized bytes to be exposed (or the program to crash) if the borrowed string changes after its length is checked.
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Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00105}

epss

{'score': 0.00709}


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Fedoraproject Fedora
Redhat Devtools Enterprise Linux
Rust-lang Rust
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T17:23:10.528Z

Reserved: 2021-04-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-36323

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-04-14T07:15:12.087

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:29:16.753

Link: CVE-2020-36323

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-12-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-36323 - Bugzilla

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