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CVE-2018-21000

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% 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 safe-transmute crate before 0.10.1 for Rust. A constructor's arguments are in the wrong order, causing heap memory corruption.

Affected products

• Safe-Transmute Project Safe-Transmute: before 0.10.1 — fixed in 0.10.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Safe-Transmute Project Safe-Transmute 0.10.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/safe-transmute-rs/pull/36
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0013.html
• https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/safe-transmute-rs/pull/36
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0013.html

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