CVE-2020-25575

CRITICAL

Failure < 0.1.8 - Type Confusion

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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
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