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CVE-2018-20995

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-08-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An issue was discovered in the slice-deque crate before 0.1.16 for Rust. move_head_unchecked allows memory corruption because deque updates are mishandled.

Affected products

• Slice-Deque Project Slice-Deque: before 0.1.16 — fixed in 0.1.16

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Slice-Deque Project Slice-Deque 0.1.16. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0008.html
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0008.html

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