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CVE-2018-21000

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-21000 is a critical heap memory corruption vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) affecting the safe-transmute crate for Rust versions prior to 0.10.1. This flaw stems from incorrectly ordered constructor arguments, which can lead to severe impacts including complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:safe-transmute_project:safe-transmute:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0203 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
rustpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: safe-transmuteFixed in: 0.10.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

rustGHSA-2v78-j59h-fmpfcritical

Heap overflow or corruption in safe-transmute

Aug 25, 2021

References

github.com / nabijaczleweli/safe-transmute-rs/pull/36
PatchThird Party Advisory
rustsec.org / advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0013.html
Third Party Advisory