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CVE-2019-15552

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% 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-416

Description

An issue was discovered in the libflate crate before 0.1.25 for Rust. MultiDecoder::read has a use-after-free, leading to arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

• Libflate Project Libflate: from 0.1.14 before 0.1.25 — fixed in 0.1.25

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Libflate Project Libflate 0.1.25. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/sile/libflate/issues/35
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0010.html
• https://github.com/sile/libflate/issues/35
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0010.html

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