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CVE-2018-25008

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-04-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-662

Description

In the standard library in Rust before 1.29.0, there is weak synchronization in the Arc::get_mut method. This synchronization issue can be lead to memory safety issues through race conditions.

Affected products

• rust-lang rust: before 1.29.0 — fixed in 1.29.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: rust-lang rust 1.29.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/51780
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/52031
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/51780
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/52031

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