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CVE-2018-20996

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% 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-415

Description

An issue was discovered in the crossbeam crate before 0.4.1 for Rust. There is a double free because of destructor mishandling.

Affected products

crossbeam-rs crossbeam: before 0.4.1 — fixed in 0.4.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: crossbeam-rs crossbeam 0.4.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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