CVE-2018-20992 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting the claxon crate for Rust, specifically versions prior to 0.4.1. It involves the mishandling of decode buffer sizes, which can lead to the exposure of uninitialized memory. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating a high potential for confidentiality impact if exploited, though it requires user interaction and has low attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 0.2.0, <= 0.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:claxon_project:claxon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:claxon_project:claxon:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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