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CVE-2018-25025

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-25025 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting the actix-web crate for Rust, specifically versions prior to 0.7.15. It allows for an unsound extension of a string's lifetime, leading to memory corruption. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.7.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:actix:actix-web:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/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
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0129 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 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)

rustpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actix-webFixed in: 0.7.15
rustpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actix-webFixed in: 0.7.19

Vendor Advisories (1)

rustGHSA-fgfm-hqjw-3265critical

Out-of-bounds Write in actix-web

Jan 6, 2022

References

raw.githubusercontent.com / rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/actix-web/RUSTSEC-2018-0019.md
Third Party Advisory
rustsec.org / advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0019.html
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory