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CVE-2019-16144

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-16144 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting the Rust generator crate before version 0.6.18, where uninitialized memory is used by Scope, done, and yield_ during API calls. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) due to the system crashing. While the CVSS score is 7.5, indicating a significant impact on availability, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.6.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:generator-rs_project:generator-rs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0163 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

rustpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: generatorFixed in: 0.6.18

Vendor Advisories (1)

rustGHSA-6c65-xcf5-299xhigh

Uninitialized memory use in generator

Aug 25, 2021

References

github.com / Xudong-Huang/generator-rs/issues/9
Third Party Advisory
rustsec.org / advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0020.html
Third Party Advisory