CVE-2019-15541

HIGH

Rustls < 0.16.0 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

rustls-mio/examples/tlsserver.rs in the rustls crate before 0.16.0 for Rust allows attackers to cause a denial of service (loop of conn_event and ready) by arranging for a client to never be writable.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ctz/rustls/compare/cd66549...17ee52c
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ctz/rustls/issues/285

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0048
EPSS Percentile 65.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-88
Status published
Products (1)
rustls_project/rustls < 0.16.0
Published Aug 26, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026