CVE-2020-35860 describes a critical vulnerability in the Rust cbox crate (through 2020-03-19) where its API allows dereferencing raw pointers without requiring unsafe code. This design flaw, categorized as CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference), carries a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8 (Critical), indicating a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cbox_project:cbox:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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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.