CVE-2017-1000430 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in rust-base64 versions <= 0.5.1, specifically impacting the 'encode_config_buf' and 'encode_config' functions during base64 encoding. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, allowing for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit intelligence (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) or active exploitation (KEV) has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the high FAUCET Risk Score of 79/100 indicates significant potential danger.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rust-base64_project:rust-base64:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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