Description
An issue was discovered in the failure crate through 0.1.5 for Rust. It may introduce "compatibility hazards" in some applications, and has a type confusion flaw when downcasting. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. NOTE: This may overlap CVE-2019-25010
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/failure/issues/336
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0036.html
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/failure-to-fehler/
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0062
EPSS Percentile
70.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-843
Status
published
Products (2)
crates.io/failure
0crates.io
failure_project/failure
< 0.1.8
Published
Sep 14, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026