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CVE-2020-25575

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-25575 is a critical type confusion vulnerability (CWE-843) affecting the Rust 'failure' crate through version 0.1.5, specifically impacting products no longer supported by the maintainer. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it presents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.1.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:failure_project:failure:*:*:*:*:*: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
2.87%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0287 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 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 (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

rustGHSA-jq66-xh47-j9f3critical

Type confusion if __private_get_type_id__ is overriden

Jun 16, 2022

References

boats.gitlab.io / blog/post/failure-to-fehler
ExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com / rust-lang-nursery/failure/issues/336
PatchThird Party Advisory
rustsec.org / advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0036.html
Vendor Advisory