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CVE-2021-45693

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-45693 is a critical vulnerability affecting the messagepack-rs crate for Rust, specifically within the deserialize_string_primitive function, which can lead to reading from uninitialized memory. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without user interaction and can result in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness among security researchers.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:messagepack-rs_project:messagepack-rs:*:*:*:*:*: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
1.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0119 is in the 51st percentile among its peer group of 36,897 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

rustGHSA-jqjj-r4qp-x2ghcritical

Use of Uninitialized Resource in messagepack-rs.

Jan 6, 2022

References

raw.githubusercontent.com / rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/messagepack-rs/RUSTSEC-2021-0092.md
Third Party Advisory
rustsec.org / advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0092.html
Third Party Advisory